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A new social media platform is [growing / grown] very quickly. The social network Bluesky is getting over one million new [uses / users] every day. The site opened to the public [on / in] February. However, it started gaining in [popularity / popular] after the U.S. Presidential Election on November the 5th. Many people are signing [down / up] for Bluesky because they want an alternative [to / at] X, Facebook and Threads. Bluesky is currently [a / the] most downloaded free app in Apple's and Google's app stores. Digital media [journalist / journalism] Ben Collins said: "Bluesky works and looks and feels just like Twitter." He said Bluesky has a fresher [felt / feel] than other platforms and gives users [many / more] control.

Bluesky [begun / began] in 2019 as a research project at Twitter. It was led [by / to] the co-founder and [former / firmer] CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey. It launched as an invitation-only [vision / version] in February 2023. The platform is very [similarity / similar] to Twitter. Even the logos are similar. Twitter had a blue bird logo; Bluesky has a blue butterfly. Mr Dorsey said the name Bluesky is [form / from] a Twitter idea [that / what] a bird could fly freely in an open blue sky. This open blue sky is a symbol [at / of] free speech. Bluesky allows users to control their feed and focus on posts they are interested in. It said if you "want only posts that have cat photos, or only posts [related / relation] to sports, you can simply pick your feed of [choose / choice] from an open marketplace".