Sir Keir Starmer has stated he has “no plans” to hitch the Bluesky social media platform.
There was a rising wave of recognition for the app – a substitute for Elon Musk’s X – in current weeks.
Bluesky has at occasions been essentially the most downloaded app on each the US and UK Apple Shops, with many social media customers leaving X within the wake of the US election.
However the prime minister informed reporters that “in the intervening time” there are not any plans to determine official UK authorities accounts or a private one in his identify.
Some politicians have already arrange Bluesky accounts together with former Labour chief Jeremy Corbyn and treasury minister Darren Jones.
Talking on the G20 summit in Brazil, Sir Keir stated it’s “vital for a authorities” to have the ability to talk with “as many individuals as doable”, including “we’re clearly nonetheless utilizing Twitter (X)”.
X doesn’t share its complete person numbers however it’s understood to be measured within the lots of of thousands and thousands.
Bluesky was began by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey in 2019. The platform introduced this week it had surpassed 19 million customers.
Regardless of serving to fund and begin it, Mr Dorsey is now not a part of the group behind the social community.
The important thing distinction between Bluesky and most different social media platforms is that it’s decentralised, which means it’s operated on unbiased servers and never these owned by the corporate.
It describes itself as “social media appropriately” – a spot the place folks can come collectively over shared pursuits “and have some enjoyable once more”.
Many new customers have stated their choice to hitch Bluesky was pushed by Elon Musk, who closely backed Donald Trump’s election marketing campaign and intends to stay concerned within the new administration.
Final week, the Guardian announced it will no longer post on X, saying the US election underlined its issues that Musk had been in a position to make use of X to “form political discourse”.
