Bluesky sits at 24 million users following explosive growth

Bluesky, an alternative to X (formerly known as Twitter), now has 24 million users. Various reasons led X users to search for alternatives, and Bluesky benefited from that the most, it would seem.

Bluesky now has over 24 million users, marking a considerable growth in the last two weeks

Around two weeks ago, it was reported that the social media network sits at 20 million users. That number grew by 4 million in a very short time span. To be perfectly accurate, Bluesky now counts 24.36 million users.

It was also noted that there are 719.68 million posts on the social media network thus far, 1.271 billion follows, and 3.159 billion likes.

Now, if this growth sounds familiar, that’s because Threads has seen stellar growth back when it launched too. In fact, Threads’ growth was unprecedented, and it was mainly due to all the controversy surrounding Twitter and Elon Musk. The timing of the launch was perfect, it would seem.

Threads’ momentum did slow down, of course, as it was impossible to maintain what was happening back then. It is worth noting that Bluesky is still a small fish compared to X and Threads.

X and Threads have a lot more monthly active users in comparison

X has around 611 million users, while Threads is sitting at 275 million monthly active users. So, Bluesky still has a lot of catching up to do, that’s for sure. It will be interesting to see if the company can keep the momentum going.

Bluesky announced that the very first user was able to reach 1 million followers, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a US representative. A number of well-known celebrities switched over to Bluesky recently, Stephen King and Guillermo del Toro, for example. A number of journalists too.

Bluesky also announced some policy updates to tackle impersonators and promised that it won’t train generative AI on your posts. It will be interesting to follow the trajectory of this app/social media network in the coming months/years.