The success story continues for Bluesky. After having exceeded 15 million users a few days ago, the network announces having gained more than a million people in the last 24 hours.
Elon Musk's recent positions delight his competitors: between his modification of the blocking system and his attraction to disinformation, many users want to turn away from X/Twitter and move towards alternative networks with more security and moderation.
Criteria that Bluesky seems to meet, which continues to see its number of users increase day by day to reach 16 million today.
A platform that appeals
The social network Bluesky indicated on November 14 that more than a million people registered on the platform in less than 24 hours. Today with more than 16 million users in total, the network will have to evolve its infrastructure to accommodate all these little people. Indeed, the network experienced an outage this Thursday evening due to a cable problem on the part of their ISP (internet service provider) as well as various network problems, reports one of their developers.
An exodus that continues
If Adam Mosseri, the director of Instagram, boasted of having recorded more than 15 million registrations on Threads in November, Jay Graber, the director of Bluesky, can boast of having a good engagement rate higher on its platform despite a smaller number of users.
On the side of X (Twitter) the departures continue, after The Guardian These are entire communities that seem ready to take off for the blue sky, starting with Swifites whose number of registered users with the domain name “swifties.social” increased after the election of Donald Trump. reports TechCrunch.