Twitter-Funded Social Media Project Bluesky Adds Jack Dorsey to Board

Twitter-Funded Social Media Project Bluesky Adds Jack Dorsey to Board
Jack Dorsey, then-CEO of Twitter, attends the crypto-currency conference Bitcoin 2021 Convention at the Mana Convention Center in Miami on June 4, 2021. Marco Bello/AFP via Getty Images
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Bluesky, a Twitter Inc.-funded project that is seeking to rebuild how social media companies operate, said on Monday Twitter co-founder and former chief executive Jack Dorsey will join the company’s board.

Bluesky is working to build a technology that would allow different social media companies to operate on the same standard, which would enable developers to build apps that work across platforms and users to easily switch between the services. Dorsey first announced Bluesky in 2019, saying the effort would take years to build.