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In addition to sharing the most recent consumer numbers, Bluesky additionally assured customers outdated and new that video help is “coming quickly.”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