Bluesky gains from Twitter’s new reading limits for users, witnesses all time high traffic
Bluesky's userbase jumps to all-time high as soon as Elon Musk announced new regulations on Twitter.
Bluesky is a decentralised social media platform. (Image: Bluesky) Twitter witnessed a massive outage that lasted for hours. This was caused due to a new policy that restricted new, non-verified, and verified paid users from accessing a limited number of tweets per day. Due to the new policy, Twitter users started to migrate to similar platforms like Bluesky, which witnessed all-time high traffic and the platform temporarily stopped the sign-up process to resolve the issues.
Official statement from Bluesky.
Bluesky is a decentralized social media platform that is quite different from Twitter. For starters, one currently needs an invite to join Bluesky, and the company has confirmed it will hotfix the issue to keep the platform up and running again. They will soon resume user sign-ups on both the Android and iOS apps.
Elon Musk-owned Twitter recently started restricting unregistered users as an emergency measure to prevent data scraping by AI-powered bots. This led Elon Musk to announce new limits for newly registered, registered, and even verified users.
Rate limits increasing soon to 8000 for verified, 800 for unverified & 400 for new unverified https://t.co/fuRcJLifTn
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023
Currently, a verified Twitter user can read up to 10,000 posts per day, an unverified user can read up to 1,000 posts per day, and the limit is set at 500 posts per day for newly registered users. According to Musk, this measure will limit the “extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation” on Twitter.
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