Bluesky mentioned Thursday night that over 1 million individuals signed up for the platform within the final 24 hours, making it one of many busiest days for the corporate. This additionally meant the social community crossed the mark of 16 million customers total.
The platform’s announcement comes hours after Instagram head Adam Mosseri mentioned that Threads had seen greater than 15 million sign-ups in November. He added that the Meta-owned platform has had 1 million sign-ups a day for the final three months.
Bluesky additionally confronted some teething points Thursday as service was down for some customers, as a result of one of many firm’s ISPs had a cable problem that acquired clubbed with different networking snafus, in keeping with a Bluesky developer.
The decentralized social community has seen a gentle influx of customers in the previous couple of months with totally different occasions like X’s ban in Brazil, moderation points on Threads, and the latest election ends in the U.S. After the outcomes of the U.S. presidential election outcomes, greater than one million new individuals signed up on the platform in per week, the corporate mentioned Tuesday.
At the time of writing, the signup surge on Bluesky within the final 24 hours additionally positioned the app on the prime of the free apps chart on the App Store within the U.S., adopted by ChatGPT and Threads.
Bluesky is arguably smaller than Threads, which has over 275 million energetic customers, and Elon Musk-owned X. However, the platform’s CEO Jay Graber posted earlier this week that Bluesky has the next engagement than X.
“We also have a higher percentage of posters than most social sites, which follow a 90-9-1 pattern of lurkers-commenters-posters. We haven’t dipped below ~30% posters,” she mentioned in a separate put up.
Last month, Bluesky mentioned it raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Blockchain Capital with participation from Alumni Ventures, True Ventures, SevenX, Darkmode’s Amir Shevat, and Kubernetes co-creator Joe Beda. On the product entrance, the corporate mentioned it deliberate to launch subscriptions.
