{"id":229242,"date":"2026-01-17T17:03:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/former-twitter-co-founder-launches-messaging-app-run-on-bluetooth"},"modified":"2026-01-17T17:03:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:03:20","slug":"former-twitter-co-founder-launches-messaging-app-run-on-bluetooth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/former-twitter-co-founder-launches-messaging-app-run-on-bluetooth","title":{"rendered":"Former Twitter co-founder launches messaging app run on Bluetooth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/former-twitter-co-founder-launches-messaging-app-run-on-bluetooth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter, launched BitChat over the weekend as a beta messaging app that works over Bluetooth networks rather than WiFi or mobile data.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey has launched a decentralised messaging app to take on WhatsApp and make communication possible without internet access.<\/p>\n<p>Dorsey, who stepped down as CEO in 2021, wrote on social media that he had launched BitChat, a messaging network that works over Bluetooth networks, for beta testing over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter, launched BitChat over the weekend as a beta messaging app that works over Bluetooth networks rather than WiFi or mobile data. Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey has launched a decentralised messaging app to take on WhatsApp and make communication possible without internet access. Dorsey, who stepped down [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}