No plans to join Bluesky yet, Starmer says

Sir Keir Starmer has said helium has "no plans" to articulation the Bluesky societal media platform.

There has been a rising question of popularity for the app - an alternate to Elon Musk's X - successful caller weeks.

Bluesky has astatine times been the astir downloaded app connected some the US and UK Apple Stores, with galore societal media users leaving X successful the aftermath of the US election.

But the premier curate told reporters that "at the moment" determination are nary plans to found authoritative UK authorities accounts oregon a idiosyncratic 1 successful his name.

Some politicians person already acceptable up Bluesky accounts including erstwhile Labour person Jeremy Corbyn and treasury curate Darren Jones.

Speaking astatine the G20 acme successful Brazil, Sir Keir said it is "important for a government" to beryllium capable to pass with "as galore radical arsenic possible", adding "we're evidently inactive utilizing Twitter (X)".

X does not stock its full idiosyncratic numbers but it is understood to beryllium measured successful the hundreds of millions.

Bluesky was started by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey successful 2019. The level announced this week it had surpassed 19 cardinal users.

Despite helping money and commencement it, Mr Dorsey is nary longer portion of the squad down the societal network.

The cardinal quality betwixt Bluesky and astir different societal media platforms is that it is decentralised, meaning it is operated connected autarkic servers and not those owned by the company.

It describes itself arsenic "social media arsenic it should be" - a spot wherever radical tin travel unneurotic implicit shared interests "and person immoderate amusive again".

Many caller users person said their determination to articulation Bluesky was driven by Elon Musk, who heavy backed Donald Trump's predetermination run and intends to stay progressive successful the caller administration.

Last week, the Guardian announced it volition nary longer station connected X, saying the US predetermination underlined its concerns that Musk had been capable to usage X to "shape governmental discourse".