Get Charlie Taylor’s Connected newsletter to your inbox each Friday to read the innovation and technology stories that matter to Irish business.The talk this week in tech town was unsurprisingly about Twitter once again. With owner Elon Musk opting last weekend to limit the amounts of tweets that users can access, and then announcing plans to restrict TweetDeck to verified subscribers only, more people abandoned ship.
Bluesky, the Jack Dorsey-backed alternative to Twitter had to pause onboarding new users due to heavy traffic, while Instagram’s Threads, which launched on Thursday, gained over 10 million users in its first few hours.