Thursday night, Bluesky reported that over 1 million users signed up for the platform in the past 24 hours, making it one of its busiest days bringing the social network to a total of 16 million subscribers
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri said Threads had over 15 million sign-ups in November hours before the platform’s introduction. He said the Meta-owned platform has received 1 million sign-ups a day for three months.
According to a Bluesky developer, one of the company’s ISPs had a cable issue that caused service outages Thursday.
With X’s prohibition in Brazil, Threads moderating troubles, and the U.S. election results, the decentralized social network has witnessed a steady increase in users in recent months.
X owner Elon Musk supported President-elect Donald Trump, while Twitter pushed pro-Trump views in users’ algorithmic feeds.
Bluesky reported Tuesday that over a million new users joined the platform in a week after the U.S. presidential election.
Bluesky tops the U.S. App Store’s free apps chart, followed by ChatGPT and Threads, after a 24-hour enrollment surge.
X and Threads, which have about 275 million users, are substantially larger than Bluesky. Bluesky has better interaction than X, according to platform CEO Jay Graber earlier this week.
“We also have more posters than most social sites, which have 90-9-1 lurkers-commenters-posters. “We’ve maintained ~30% posters,” she stated in a separate post.
Bluesky acquired $15 million in Series A funding last month from Blockchain Capital, Alumni Ventures, True Ventures, SevenX, Darkmode’s Amir Shevat, and Kubernetes co-creator Joe Beda. Product-wise, the company envisaged subscriptions.
