Sir Keir Starmer has mentioned he has “no plans” to affix the Bluesky social media platform.
There was a rising wave of recognition for the app – an alternative choice to 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 advised reporters that “for the time being” there aren’t any plans to ascertain official UK authorities accounts or a private one in his title.
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 mentioned it’s “essential 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 a whole lot 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 not a part of the workforce 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 impartial 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 mentioned their resolution to affix 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 introduced it is going to not put up on X, saying the US election underlined its issues that Musk had been ready to make use of X to “form political discourse”.
