A day since the social networking platform Bluesky opened to everyone, allowing new users to sign up without any invitation, the company announced on its rival platform X that more than one million new users had signed up.
So the total number of Bluesky users has already exceeded 4 million, the social network revealed in a separate post. Bluesky noted that new users are joining the platform at an average of 8,5 accounts per second.
Welcome to the 1M+ new users who joined Bluesky since we opened access yesterday!
Sign up here: https://t.co/exCdOOYprz pic.twitter.com/si9dn04zp2
— bluesky (@bluesky) February 8, 2024
Bluesky was founded in 2021, and in March 2023, the social network began inviting people to test the beta version. Jacky Dorsey, who is a Bluesky board member, announced it as an independent project under the umbrella of Twitter (now X) in 2019. The initial focus was to create an open protocol for decentralized social media.
After opening access yesterday, Bluesky has crossed 4M users! 🎉
• 850k+ new users have signed up
• Averaged 8.5 new accounts/second
• 2M posts were created in the last 24 hoursSign up for Bluesky here, no invite code required: https://t.co/xjTBYE9oOJ pic.twitter.com/vDB4pdnERy
— bluesky (@bluesky) February 7, 2024
Bluesky is one of a number of X alternatives that have sprouted up in recent years, including Mastodon and Meta-owned Threads.
However, its initial success has not been as rapid as that of Threads, which attracted tens of millions of users in its first week of launch last year. One reason behind the success of Threads is the fact that it is a spin-off of Instagram and users do not need a separate account to use the service.
