Blue Sky Social Media: Features, Owners, and Rising Popularity Explained

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Blue Sky, the microblogging social media platform is increasing in popularity and users. Here we will discuss the Blue Sky social media platform, its owners, the reasons behind its popularity, and how to use Blue Sky Social media and its future.

About Blue Sky Social Media

Blue Sky is a social media platform similar to X which was previously known as Twitter. In Blue Sky users can post short messages videos and images and users are also able to repost, reply, and like posts just like other microblogging platforms like X. Blue Sky is an open social network that values user’s choices and gives freedom to developers to build.

The Blue Sky was started by Jack Dorsey founder of Twitter to decentralise the platform. Blue Sky launched its website in 2021. The Blue Sky was launched in February 2023 on an invite-only basis. The user count of Blue Sky showed a sudden increase after it removed its invite-only feature.

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Who owns Blue Sky

Though Blue Sky was originally founded by Jack Dorsey he said that he left the Director board and deleted the account from Blue Sky. The Blue Sky is partly owned by CEO Jay Graber and other board of directors including  Jabber, Jeremie Miller, Mike Masnick, and, Kinjal Shah.

Popularity of Blue Sky

The new social media platform Blue Sky has over 20 million users worldwide. Many users started accounts in the blue sky as frequent changes in platform X began to frustrate X users. During the US presidential election day, many users deactivated their accounts from X. More than 2.5 million people signed up on the new social media platform Blue Sky after the election. Many users have joined Blue Sky as an alternative to X.

Feedback from users of Blue Sky

The users of Blue Sky shared that the social media platform has higher quality user engagement than other microblogging platforms. The activity metrics of the Blue Sky social media platform are showing an increase in the number of likes and follows.

How to use Blue Sky

Social media platform Blue Sky can be used like X. Users can browse the website and read posts uploaded from different accounts. Users can sign in to Blue Sky using their respective email ID and user handles and avatars can be chosen. Then one can select interested areas and view their feeds. Users can also follow different accounts.

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Future of Blue Sky

The user count of Blue Sky is likely to grow with the recent updates in the Blue Sky social media. Recently Blue Sky added new features like video attachments, features to pin a post, direct messages, and usage of customizable fonts.

Conclusion 

With the increase in popularity of the social media platform Blue Sky, it has narrowed down its gap with the most popular microblogging platform threads. The quick increase in the users of Blue Sky is because of the deactivation of accounts from Elon Musk’s X platform after the US elections. Blue Sky is likely to continue to grow based on its users as it is getting more popular in the US and UK.