Social community Bluesky mentioned Monday that it now has greater than 10 million customers. That is largely due to the speedy development of the community previously few weeks after Elon Musk-owned X was shuttered in Brazil.
“If you’re reading this, you’re one of the first 10 million users on Bluesky!” the corporate mentioned in a submit. Bluesky additionally has a enjoyable easter egg on its dwelling web page: Whenever you click on the celebration emoji, you possibly can see your becoming a member of quantity on the platform and share it to your pals.
Final month, Brazil’s prime court docket banned X within the nation and established a fantastic for customers accessing the service utilizing a VPN. Publish that, different social networks equivalent to Meta’s Threads and Bluesky soared in recognition. At present, these apps are within the prime 10 spots within the App Retailer and Play Retailer rankings for the social media class in Brazil.
Bluesky quickly gained 3 million customers inside days of X’s ban in Brazil, with its total consumer rely going previous 9 million earlier this month. The corporate mentioned greater than 85% of new customers had been from Brazil.
Final week, Bluesky mentioned it was seeing file exercise on the platform, and due to folks signing up in bulk, the platform skilled a number of server glitches.
After being in an invite-only mode for nearly a yr, Bluesky opened up its platform for all customers in February. In the meantime, Bluesky’s Meta-owned rival Threads has grown to over 200 million customers.
Bluesky final week lastly began letting customers submit movies on the app. It additionally rolled out self-moderation instruments like controlling who can quote a submit, hiding replies, and the flexibility to mute phrases for a set period of time.
