Bluesky gained greater than 700,000 new customers within the final week and now has greater than 14.5 million customers complete, Bluesky COO Rose Wang confirmed to The Verge. The “majority” of the brand new customers on the decentralized social community are from the US, Wang says. The app is at the moment the quantity two free social networking app within the US App Retailer, solely trailing Meta’s Threads.
However the Instagram-bootstrapped Threads, which not too long ago crossed 275 million month-to-month customers, continues to be considerably bigger than Bluesky.
The unbiased platform has seen a variety of development in latest weeks — on October twenty fourth, Bluesky introduced it had 13 million customers. After X’s latest announcement that it will let blocked customers nonetheless see posts from the person who blocked them, for instance, Bluesky mentioned it added 500,000 new customers in in the future.
The outcomes of the US presidential election could possibly be a part of Bluesky’s new inflow of customers. Folks could also be wanting to make use of a platform that’s not owned by Musk or, like some Taylor Swift followers, could also be searching for a brand new platform following a rise in hate speech on X.
