Over a million people signed up for Bluesky’s website in the last 24 hours, the company said Thursday evening. It was one of their busiest days ever. This also means that the social network now had more than 16 million users.
It was just hours ago that Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri said that more than 15 million people signed up for Threads in November. He also said that for the past three months, one million people have signed up every day for the Meta-owned website.
On Thursday, Bluesky also had some teething problems. Some users couldn’t connect because one of the company’s ISPs had a cable problem that got mixed up with other networking problems, according to a Bluesky engineer.
In the past few months, the decentralized social network has steadily gained new users. This is due to events such as the recent election results in the U.S., the ban on X in Brazil, and problems with management on Threads. Elon Musk was a well-known backer of Donald Trump for president-elect, and the social networking site (which used to be called Twitter) often showed pro-Trump views in users’ feeds. On Tuesday, Bluesky said that after the U.S. election, more than a million new people signed up for the app in just one week.
At the time of this writing, Bluesky had the most new users of any app in the last 24 hours. It was also the most popular free app in the U.S. App Store, ahead of ChatGPT and Threads.
Even so, Bluesky is still a lot smaller than X and Threads, which each have over 275 million daily users. But earlier this week, the platform’s CEO, Jay Graber, wrote that Bluesky has more activity than X.
There are also more posters on our site than on most social networks, which have a trend of 90% lurkers, 9% commenters, and 1% posters. “We haven’t dropped below 30% posters,” she wrote in a different post.
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Bluesky announced last month that it had raised $15 million in Series A funding. Blockchain Capital led the round, with involvement from Alumni Ventures, True Ventures, SevenX, Amir Shevat of Darkmode, and Joe Beda, co-founder of Kubernetes. The business said it was going to start payments for its products.
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