In a post on its own social media, Bluesky revealed that it has added 2.6 million users in the past few days. This is a huge growth in such a short period of time for a platform that only has around 8.8 million users in total. a blog entryThe company said more than 85 percent of new users are Brazilian, which amounts to more than 2 million.
If you recall, Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes recently ordered the country's internet service providers to block x after the website formerly known as twitter refused to ban specific accounts accused of spreading misinformation.
Moraes also ordered Apple and Google to remove x from their app stores and that people who use a VPN to access the website be fined R$50,000 (US$8,900). Brazil's Supreme Court has just upheld the ban on x after its judges voted unanimously in favor of the measure, according to the court. BBCElon Musk, owner of x, accused Moraes of destroying democracy “for political purposes.” The website also created a new profile called “x.com/AlexandreFiles” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:Alexandre Files;cpos:5;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “>Alexander's Archives“, which he said will shed light “on the abuses of Brazilian law committed by Alexandre de Moraes.”
After x became inaccessible in Brazil, users in the country found new homes elsewhere. Bluesky experimented A huge peak in the number of likes and unique daily posts, as well as in the number of unique followers, in the last days of August. While the website is not yet as robust as twitter, it has recently he mocked that its next major app update will come with video features, which could help retain its new users.
Other statistics on Bluesky's meteoric rise show the impact of this influx of people to the platform. When comparing a 96-hour period from August 30 to September 2 to a similar period a month earlier, Engineer Jaz said Likes on the platform increased from 13 million to 104.6 million, followers grew from 1.4 million to 100.8 million, and reposts increased from 1.3 million to 11 million. Bluesky Developer Paul Frazee warned that users may experience outages and performance issues as the platform has “never seen traffic like this.”
Bluesky is a decentralized social network that was pre-funded and founded in 2019 by twitter founder Jack Dorsey. The website launched as an invitation-only social network but was eventually opened to the public earlier this year. It also introduced new features that most users would be looking for if they are set on leaving x, including direct messaging. While direct messages only worked between two users at launch, the website promised to implement group messaging, media support, and end-to-end encryption “in the future.” However, Dorsey left Bluesky’s board in May and later claimed that the website was “literally repeating all the mistakes” he made while running twitter.
Update, September 4, 3:10 pm ET: This story was updated after publication. A section of the original story that inferred that the influx of users was likely of Brazilian origin was replaced by a Bluesky statistic published on September 4 that confirmed this to be true. At the same time, more details were added to the story about the increase in followers, likes, and reposts on the platform.
