Twitter down the same day Jack Dorsey launches decentralized alternative

Twitter suffered different outage connected March 1 arsenic thousands of users flagged issues with Elon Musk’s societal media platform. The outage took spot arsenic Twitter laminitis Jack Dorsey’s caller project, Bluesky, went into beta testing.

Data from Downdetector showed thousands of contented reports from Twitter users from 9 americium UTC, with issues dilatory being resolved implicit a 5 hr period. 59% of the reported problems were from mobile app users portion a further 35% of issues were flagged by website users.

Twitter is yet to contented immoderate updates connected the origin of the outage, but assorted reports bespeak that users successful antithetic parts of the satellite experienced issues. Issues included the Following and For You feeds not displaying immoderate tweets oregon content.

Twitter mobile app works, but users can’t spot caller tweets successful their timeline.

The New York Times reported that a further 200 employees had been retrenched from the institution implicit the weekend. Since Musk took implicit the societal media platform, Twitter’s unit numbers person been reduced from implicit 7500 to nether 2000. According to the report, merchandise managers, information scientists and engineers were among those that were fto spell by the company.

While Twitter grappled with its latest outage, Dorsey’s decentralized societal media level Bluesky went into backstage beta testing. As Cointelegraph reported, the mobile exertion became disposable to prime users done an invite-only beta testing.

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According to archetypal reports, the exertion has been disposable connected the Apple app store since Feb. 17 and had implicit 2000 downloads by the extremity of the month. The app is not yet disposable connected Android.

A report successful January suggested that Twitter was processing outgo features for the application, with the anticipation of onboarding cryptocurrency functionality successful the future. The societal media app besides rolled retired a cryptocurrency terms hunt diagnostic successful January which featured implicit 30 antithetic tokens. 

Bluesky emerged arsenic a broadside merchandise of Twitter successful 2019, aiming to make an unfastened and decentralized modular for societal media. Meanwhile, different decentralized societal media platform, Damus, went unrecorded in February 2023 arsenic well. The level is simply a messaging work built connected Nostr, a decentralized web powering encrypted end-to-end backstage messaging and different services.