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Speaker 1: Right at the moment, let's talk about what's going on

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Speaker 1: with social media. So apparently the latest thing on social

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Speaker 1: media is the thing called Blue Sky. It's like an

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Speaker 1: alternative to Twitter. If you don't like Twitter anymore, then

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Speaker 1: you can migrate yourself over to Blue Sky have a

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Speaker 1: nice time with people who feel the same as you

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Speaker 1: do about Donald Trump's election and Elon Musk and so on.

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Speaker 1: And apparently it's hit about twenty one million people using it.

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Speaker 1: Tech commentator Bill Bennett has been checking it out and

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Speaker 1: is with us. Hey Bill, Hi, any good?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, it's really like old school Twitter, going back

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Speaker 2: sort of five or six years before Elon was involved,

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Speaker 2: and again a bit before that as well, and it's

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Speaker 2: very similar. It's got the same sort of vibe. It

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Speaker 2: looks a lot like Twitter. But there's a reason why

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Speaker 2: it looks a lot like Twitter, and that is because

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Speaker 2: it's actually a Twitter side project. It was started by

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Speaker 2: the people at Twitter. They were in effect rewriting the products,

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Speaker 2: and not long before Elon Must took it over. It's

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Speaker 2: spun off as a separate business, which is kind of

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Speaker 2: fortunate for them, I suppose, given the way things turned out.

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Speaker 2: So it's it's really got that kind of old Twitter

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Speaker 2: vibe to it. It's not but it's not like Twitter

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Speaker 2: in a number of really quite important ways. One thing

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Speaker 2: is that if someone's annoying, if you're they're bothering, if

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Speaker 2: you're a woman and you're getting adrow from a bloke,

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Speaker 2: you can just block them. You can just completely block

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Speaker 2: them and you don't have to hear from them, and

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Speaker 2: they don't hear from you. And you can't do that

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Speaker 2: on Twitter anymore. If you're you know, if someone's bullying

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Speaker 2: on Twitter, you've got to put up with it. But

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Speaker 2: you don't on Blue Sky. The other thing is is

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Speaker 2: that Twitter will decide what it thinks you should see.

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Speaker 2: So if you're actually still on Twitter, you'll see an

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Speaker 2: awful lot of what Elon has to say his baby.

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Speaker 2: You don't on Blue Sky. You choose what you get

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Speaker 2: to see. You don't get someone else decide.

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Speaker 1: Like old school Twitter. Yeah yeah, okay, So I mean

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Speaker 1: this kind of thing kind of lives or dies based

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Speaker 1: on whether you get enough famous pop. We've got a

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Speaker 1: few international famous people, got any famous Kiwis on it?

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Speaker 2: I don't think I've seen anyone who recognizable yet. There's

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Speaker 2: certain you certainly don't see any famous sports people on there.

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Speaker 1: Is what's going to work or is this going to

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Speaker 1: go the way of Threads?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting at the moment. It's got twenty one million,

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Speaker 2: as you say, that's probably about a tent for what

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Speaker 2: Twitter has. Threads would have more today than that. But

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Speaker 2: Threads is kind of It's got lots of people there,

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Speaker 2: but it's tumbleweed rolling down the street if you go there,

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Speaker 2: and Blue Sky is anxiety. But the thing is, I

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Speaker 2: don't think it's ever going to be another Twitter in

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Speaker 2: that it's going to be something everyone goes to. I

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Speaker 2: think you're going to see a fragmented market with different

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Speaker 2: different social media platforms to people, you know, with different

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Speaker 2: vibes and different groups of people.

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Speaker 1: Interesting stuff. Bill, thanks very much, really appreciate it. It's

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Speaker 1: Bill Bennett tick commentator. Hither I just had to look

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Speaker 1: at Blue Sky, let's say, or not be going there.

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Speaker 1: I'm not on Twitter either, But the rubbish from the

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Speaker 1: love on there is ridiculous. This is not altogether a

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Speaker 1: good thing that this is happening, by the way. I mean,

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Speaker 1: like Twitter is horrible. You know that We've discussed that

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Speaker 1: a million times. But if you're gonna have If you're

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Speaker 1: just gonna have Twitter now populated by a bunch of

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Speaker 1: right wingers, and then you have gonna you're gonna have

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Speaker 1: Blue Sky populated by a bunch of left wingers, that's

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Speaker 1: not really that's just driving people into the echo chambers. Right,

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Speaker 1: You're supposed to all hang out in the same place

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Speaker 1: so you can share ideas and not go further and

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Speaker 1: further into your corner. But anyway, whatever, this is the

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Speaker 1: way the world is going. I suppose For more from

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