Bluesky retains rising: The corporate introduced that as of Friday morning, it had added 3 million new customers, bringing its whole person depend to greater than 9 million.
In different phrases, the social platform’s person base has grown by round 50 % within the week or so since a Brazilian courtroom banned X (previously Twitter). The ban despatched Bluesky to the highest of the free iPhone app charts in Brazil, the place it’s at present ranked quantity two, behind Meta’s competing app Threads.
Along with sharing the most recent person numbers, Bluesky additionally assured customers outdated and new that video assist is “coming quickly.”
The platform began as a Twitter-backed initiative to create an open social protocol, however has since turn into an impartial, venture-backed startup and absolutely opened to the general public in February.
In an earlier put up about progress, Bluesky mentioned that 85% of its new customers are Brazilian. Bringing on so many new customers so shortly has led to occasional technical points.
