Jack Dorsey, former Twitter CEO, has criticised Meta’s new app, Threads, in a tweet on Thursday, drawing attention to the similarities between Twitter and Threads.
“We wanted flying cars, instead we got seven Twitter clones,” said Dorsey in a quote tweet to another tweet, pointing out similarities between Twitter and six other rivals that have the same layout.
Dorsey owns a social media platform similar to Twitter, Bluesky, launched in 2019, which he created as a Twitter side project when he was still its CEO and has recently reached one million users.
Bluesky managed to achieve the milestone despite currently being in an invite-only sign-up state, and is now planning paid features.
Bluesky has announced a new feature, allowing users to purchase and manage web domains directly through the platform while using these domains as official usernames.
“Traditionally, social media companies have supported business costs through advertising. While advertising can subsidise services to make them free to the end user, it comes with negative long-term consequences like incentivizing platforms to lock their users in,” said the Bluesky Team in its recent blog.
As the social media platform promises an ad-free experience for users, it is searching for ways to generate revenue.
“We wanted flying cars, instead we got 7 Twitter clones.” https://t.co/MavyysZCcP
— jack (@jack) July 6, 2023
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