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CTOnews.com, July 3 (Xinhua)-- Elon Musk, executive chairman and chief technology officer of Twitter, announced on Saturday that Twitter will temporarily limit the number of posts users can read every day due to "data crawling" and "system manipulation" problems. The news drew attention to Twitter rival Bluesky, causing traffic on the platform to reach an all-time high.

▲ source: Bluesky Musk wrote on Twitter that in order to deal with these problems, authenticated accounts, unauthenticated accounts and newly registered unauthenticated accounts will be restricted. Musk adjusted the limit several times on Saturday to determine that authenticated accounts can view 10, 000 posts a day, unauthenticated accounts can view 1000, and newly registered unauthenticated accounts can view 500. After the limit is exceeded, the user will see the error message "rate limit exceeded".

As a result, people are turning to Bluesky, a new text social media platform backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. Bluesky, which is still in the invitation testing phase, said in a post on Saturday that its system had experienced "some performance degradation" as "traffic hit an all-time high". The platform also had to suspend registration to fix performance problems, and Bluesky resumed registration later on Sunday.

Bluesky, which was first hatched on Twitter in 2019 by Dorsey, then CEO, runs on a decentralized web technology called AT protocol that theoretically supports future social apps, allowing people to maintain their identities on multiple platforms. In February 2022, members of the Bluesky project founded Bluesky Commonweal LLC with Jay Graber as CEO and Dorsey as a founding board member. The company announced on Twitter in April that it had received $13 million (CTOnews.com Note: currently about 94.38 million yuan). According to its website, Bluesky had more than 50, 000 users by the end of April this year.

Bluesky is not the only emerging Twitter competitor. Decentralized messaging app Mastodon also attracted a lot of attention in November, while social media giant Meta has previously confirmed that it is "exploring an independent decentralized social network to share text updates."

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