Twitter co-founder, Jack Dorsey, set to launch new social app

Twitter co-founder, Jack Dorsey, has announced plans to launch a new social app, Bluesky.

The latest development comes days after the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, took sole control of Twitter in a contentious $44 billion deal.

Musk has implemented a series of changes at Twitter, with the entire board, including CEO Parag Agrawal, sacked last week.

The Tesla and SpaceX boss equally announced that the microblogging site will charge $8 per month to verify users’ accounts.

Dorsey will however be looking to appeal to the thousands of people who have said they will leave Twitter and who disagree with its acquisition by the South African-born billionaire.

Dorsey, who stepped down as Twitter CEO in November 2021, said Bluesky would be “a competitor to any company that tries to own the underlying fundamentals for social media or the data of the people who use it.”

“The larger, long-term goal is to build an enduring, open protocol for public conversation.

“That it not be owned by any one organization, but contributed to by as many as possible. And that it is born and evolves on the internet with the same principles,” Dorsey stated.

Bluesky, which was founded by Twitter in 2019, in a press release, said the new app will have extreme security protocols, noting that it will use an Authenticated Transfer Protocol.

It added that it will be a social network that will be managed by various sites, rather than using a single location to have its servers.

“We call the app we’re building Bluesky because it will be a portal to the world of possibilities over the AT Protocol,” it stated.

The Star