Bluesky COO Rose Wang confirmed that Bluesky gained more than 700,000 new users last week and now has more than 14.5 million total users. The VergeWang says the majority of new users on the decentralized social network are from the US. The app is currently the number two free social networking app in the US App Store, trailing only Meta Threads.
But Instagram-bootstrapped threads, which recently surpassed 275 million monthly usersStill much bigger than BlueSky.
The independent platform has seen considerable growth in recent weeks – on October 24, Bluesky announced it had 13 million usersFollowing X's recent announcement that it would let blocked users still see posts from the person who blocked them, for example, Bluesky said it added 500,000 new users in a day,
The results of the US presidential election could be part of Bluesky's new influx of users. People may be looking to use a platform that is not owned by Musk or people like him some taylor swift fansYou may be looking for a new platform Increase in hate speech on X,