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The decentralized social media platform Bluesky has seen huge growth over the last few weeks, with it now likely to hit 20 million users today (November 19).
This new milestone comes after the company saw 19M users sign up to its network on November 18, with this being just two days after it reached 18 million users.
The platform’s exploding user growth can now be watched in real-time as a counter has been created by a software engineer called Natalie. The counter is accelerating continuously, with a current growth rate of 6.49 users per second.
Bluesky is around 99.8% of the way to reaching the coveted 20,000,000 user milestone.
Bluesky could hit 20M today: Why are people moving from X to Bluesky?
This substantial influx of people moving over to Bluesky has come flooding in after the results of the 2024 US Election was called. Researchers are suggesting a more liberal community has migrated from X to the new platform.
bluesky's user count grew by another million today
welcome to all 19M of you 🥳https://t.co/x6v5YW0WFT pic.twitter.com/FtCvcyyr20
— bluesky (@bluesky) November 18, 2024
In an interview with The Guardian, social media researcher Axel Bruns said Bluesky offered an alternative to Elon Musk’s X: “It’s become a refuge for people who want to have the kind of social media experience that Twitter used to provide, but without all the far-right activism, the misinformation, the hate speech, the bots and everything else.
“The more liberal kind of Twitter community has really now escaped from there and seems to have moved en masse to Bluesky.”
While people switched their social media platform preferences during the November election, the company has seen success in the past when X has implemented new changes.
In mid-October, around half a million people ditched Musk’s platform in favor of Bluesky after it announced plans to eliminate blocking essentially.
The policy change on X meant blocked users can still view a person’s public posts but cannot engage with them through replies, likes, or other interactions. This was met with criticism, with one social media user calling it a “huge day for stalkers everywhere.”
Featured Image: Via Bluesky on X
