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X and Bluesky launch dedicated video feeds on the back of TikTok uncertainty

X and Bluesky launch dedicated video feeds on the back of TikTok uncertainty | Screengrab of X video button

Social media apps X and Bluesky are both rolling out dedicated video feeds, in apparent attempts to take advantage of the continued uncertainty around TikTok.

With X, there’s a new play button icon launching a continuous video feed looking very similar to TikTok, while Bluesky offers custom feeds for video which you can choose to pin …

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Threads could become as popular as X, as latest user numbers revealed

Threads could become as popular as X, as latest user numbers revealed | Woman holding an iPhone with the app graphic on the screen

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has for the first time revealed the daily number of Threads users, stating that there are now more than 100 million daily active users. It’s also been suggested that the current trajectory means that the app could catch up with the social network formerly known as Twitter.

Zuckerberg is likely aiming to fight back against the growing popularity of Bluesky, also citing a new milestone in monthly active users …

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Bluesky’s rampant growth has once again proven that competition is a good thing

Threads now rolling out Custom Feeds in its mobile app globally

In recent past, Bluesky has been growing substantially. It quickly ballooned to over 20 million users, and at a point, the service was adding over a million users a day. Between the ban on X in Brazil earlier this year, as well as the results of the 2024 US presidential election – a large group of people have been choosing to leave X.

But, they’re not leaving for Meta’s Threads, the more popular X alternative at the time – they’re going for Bluesky instead.

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Bluesky gets moderation and other new features, but you still need an invitation

Bluesky social network app

Bluesky is the new social network that came as another alternative to Twitter. Supported by Jack Dorsey, co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, it was launched as a “private beta” earlier this year. More recently, Bluesky has been updated with multiple new features, including content moderation. But you still need an invitation to join it.

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Jack Dorsey’s Twitter competitor ‘Bluesky’ now available on the App Store, but you still need an invite

Twitter competitor Bluesky now available on the App Store

Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey left the company in May 2022 amid negotiations with Elon Musk. Since then, he has been working on Bluesky – a new decentralized social network that comes to compete with Twitter. This week, the Bluesky app was officially made available in the iOS App Store, but there’s a catch. It still requires an invitation to use it.

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