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Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Launches Bluesky Social, Set To Battle Elon Musk

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Barely a week after the completion of the transfer of ownership from Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has Launcher Bluesky Social, Set to Battle Elon Musk.

 

The platform, still in beta, already garnered over 30,000 sign-ups just two days after launch and is still getting more; its technology ‘AT Protocol’ gives users control of their algorithms

 

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It’s been an interesting period since the Elon Musk and Twitter story trend, it seems to have a long tail with no end as more attachments keep popping up.

 

After Jack Dorsey released hold of Twitter, he started working on something new and launched Bluesky Social barely 2 weeks after Elon Musk bought the bluebird app.

 

Bluesky is a blockchain-based decentralized social networking platform built to ensure users have adequate data control, creators have independence from platforms, developers have the freedom to build and users have a choice in their experience.

 

The platform, still in beta, already garnered over 30,000 sign-ups just two days after launch and is still getting more. Its technology ‘AT Protocol’ gives users control of their algorithms.

 

Bluesky Social will be using the ADX – ‘Authenticated Data eXperiment’ (ADX) protocol to utilize self-authenticating data, a model that would enable operations on any network to be certified independently without a centralized host or authority.

 

This ADX protocol has been renamed Authenticated Transfer Protocol – AT protocol which still allows users to move their details from one platform to another without losing data.

 

The AT protocol is for large-scale distributed social applications and will allow users to port accounts, make algorithmic choices, interoperability and performance.

 

In 2019, Dorsey posted a tweet that read “Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media,” adding that the goal was for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard.

 

Reports of messages sent to Elon Musk, Dorsey explained that a new platform was needed and can’t be a company, that’s why he left Twitter. He said Twitter should have an “open-sourced protocol” similar to the encrypted-messaging app Signal and can’t have an advertising model.

 

Now coming to reality, the new platform will enable users to control what they see and move between several social platforms, with the ability to see the amount of data given to those platforms while using them.

 

In response to Bluesky being a competitor to other social media sites, Dorsey said “It’s a competitor to any company trying to own the underlying fundamentals for social media or the data of the people using it.”

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My Wife Invited Her Friends To Our Home To Beat Me During Our Crisis — Oritsefemi

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Famous Nigerian singer, Oritsefemi has alleged that his wife, Nabila Fash, invited her friends to their home to beat him up during their marital crisis.

He said the ladies, numbering about 20, overpowered and physically assaulted him.

The ‘Double Wahala’ hitmaker disclosed this in a candid chat with media personality, Chude Jideonwo.

Oritsefemi stated that he has been unlucky with marriages, claiming that his first wife also dumped him after sponsoring her to Dubai.

“My wife [Nabila Fash] asked her friends to come and beat me up in my house. I said, ‘Look at me o; a whole me, lion na he women dey pursue.’ They were about 20. They dealt with me. I’m not lying,” he said.

Oritsefemi’s marriage to Nabila Fash hit the rocks in 2022, with Fash accusing the singer of incessant cheating.

In October 2022, Fash officially filed for divorce from Oritsefemi over infidelity and domestic violence.

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Chain Reactions In 7 Star Performance At 2024 SABRE Awards

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It was a seven-star performance for Chain Reactions Africa (CRA), one of Africa’s leading Public Relations and Integrated Communications Consultancy as it took home seven African SABRE trophies, more than any other public relations firm in Africa in the 2024 competition.

The awards which were held at the end of the annual African Public Relations Association (APRA) Conference, were presented by Provoke Media, organizers of the awards in Basam, Abidjan, Cote D’Ivore on May 16th 2024.

The work covered campaigns for the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), and its Lagos Blue Rail, 9mobile’s The Hack – Expand Your Hustle’, ‘Taming the Bull’ for the Presidency, ‘Next Era of Happiness’ for leading biscuit company, Pladis Foods Nigeria Limited.

Receiving the awards on behalf of Chain Reactions and its clients, was its Managing Director/Chief Strategist, Israel Opayemi, who noted that this is a seven-star performance by Chain Reactions Africa at the 2024 SABRE Awards.

In his comments Opayemi said “to emerge as the highest winner at the 2024 edition of the award with seven SABRE Awards is humbling as well as exciting for us at Chain Reactions Africa. We are immensely proud to be honoured on such a global platform like the SABRE awards which is the holy grail of Public Relations globally as the awards programme is dedicated to benchmarking the best PR works across the globe.”

He continued, “I am making a three-fold dedication of these multiple trophies to our clients who believe in us, my team members who do the brave works relentlessly and our dear country Nigeria. Ten years ago, we were at the SABRE Awards in Miami, Florida in the United States watching and applauding as winners took turn on stage. Ten years ago, we were asking for a seat at the table. Today, we are sitting in creative resplendence at the head of the table. Today, we are flying the Nigerian flag on the global stage. We are now a territory of reckon and relevance in the global PR space.”

It seems winning awards is just a Chain Reactions thing, chuckled Arun Sudhaman CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Provoke Media, organizers of the SABRE Awards as Opayemi rose up seven times to receive the awards. The PR consultancy also picked up four Certificates of Excellence in recognition of its work launching the Nigerian Youth Trend Report 2024 known as ‘ARAMANDA’, ‘Next Era of Happiness’, ‘Lagos Blue Rail’, ‘The Hack – Expand Your Hustle’, and ‘Taming the Bull’.

In his reaction, President and Chairman of Council of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) described the awards by Chain Reactions Africa as “a harvest of honours for Nigeria”. He thanked the Chain Reactions Africa team for their outstanding works saying, “thank you for making us proud.”

Chain Reactions Africa has over the years won several prestigious SABRE awards and has been awarded more than 15 Certificates of Excellence. At last year’s award, the company won CEO of the Year category for the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu for use of public relations to tell the story of his administration’s achievements and scooped two Certificates of Excellence in the Corporate Image category for the ‘Momentum Campaign’ for Cellulant, a flagship payment solution provider; and ‘Marketing to Consumers’ category for ‘The #NaijaHighlandah Campaign’ for William Lawson’s, Scotch Whiskey brand.

The 2024 Africa SABRE Awards shortlist included more than 120 campaigns, selected from over 500 entries in this year’s competition, which recognizes Superior Achievement in Branding, Reputation and Engagement. The campaigns were evaluated by a jury of industry leaders.

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BREAKING: Court Denies Binance Executive Tigran Gambaryan Bail

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Tigran Gambaryan, Binance executive, had his bail plea dismissed by a Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday.

In his verdict, Justice Emeka Nwite stated that the bail application is denied because, after carefully reviewing the application, he concluded that, should bail be granted, the defendant will violate it.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission filed charges against Gambaryan, his business Binance Holdings Limited, and another high-ranking executive who is presently fugitive, Nadeem Anjarwalla, for money laundering and supporting terrorism.

 

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