Subscription services haven’t panned out for other social media companies like Elon Musk’s X or even Instagram, but Bluesky is willing to try its luck.
Social application Bluesky is working on additional paid features that will be available to users with a monthly subscription. On the GitHub developer platform, Bluesky team is experimenting with plugins that users will pay for it.
Such additional features include: Bluesky approved profile badgeanalysis, longer video uploads and profile customization. However, Bluesky states on GitHub that this is a UI mockup and paid features may change before launch. Additional options are priced as follows: 8 dollars (7.50 euros) monthly or $72 (68 euros) per year blue sky+This too may change.
Bluesky started as a research initiative at Twitter in 2019. doesn’t want to “force the sale of user data for ads” to make money.
There was a huge increase in the number of users of the platform and More than 500% increase in use in the United States in recent months, after Trump’s victory. recently surpassed this 20 million users worldwideIt represents a big jump from the 9 million it had in September.
“Subscriptions are the first step,” Bluesky CEO Jay Graber told ‘Wired’ in an interview last week. But, bets on paid subscription-based models did not work at other companies of social networks. With X Premium, Elon Musk sought to increase paid subscriptions and reduce the platform’s dependence on advertising revenue.
However, the subscription was later named Twitter Blue, according to an October report from app intelligence company Appfigures.
HE CEO of Bluesky He also hinted at a recent ‘TechCrunch’ event that there may be other revenues as well: domain name salea market of algorithms and even possible sell advertising.
