In his post on his social network, Bluesky It revealed that it has added 2.6 million users in the last few days. For a platform with only 8.8 million total users, that’s a lot of growth in a short amount of time. In blog postmore than 85 percent of new users are Brazilian, which works out to well over 2 million, the company said.
If you recall, Brazil’s Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes recently ordered the country’s internet providers. block X After the website formerly known as Twitter refused to ban specific accounts accused of spreading disinformation.
Moraes also ordered Apple and Google to remove X from their app stores and fined people who use a VPN to access the website R$50,000 ($8,900). Brazil’s Supreme Court upheld Xa’s ban after judges unanimously voted in favor of the measure. BBC. Elon Musk, the owner of X, accused Moraes of destroying democracy “for political purposes”. The website also created a new profile called “The Alexander FilesHe said it would shed light on abuses of Brazilian law by Alexandre de Moraes.
After X became unavailable in Brazil, users in the country found new homes elsewhere. Bluesky experienced a large spike in the number of unique daily likes and posters, as well as the number of unique followers, in the last days of August. Although the website is not yet as powerful as Twitter, it has recently been teased its next major app will come with updated video features, which could help keep its new users around.
Some other statistics related to Bluesky’s metric rise show the impact of this influx of people to the platform. Comparing the 96-hour period from August 30 to September 2 with the same period one month earlier, said engineer Jaz likes on the platform increased from 13 million to 104.6 million, followers from 1.4 million to 100.8 million, and reposts from 1.3 million to 11 million. Bluesky developer Paul Frezee warned users may see outages and performance issues because the platform “never sees such traffic.”
Bluesky is a decentralized social network that was previously funded and created in 2019 by Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter. The website started out as an invite-only social network, but eventually opened to the public earlier this year. It also introduced new features that most users will be looking for if they’re about to leave Xi direct messaging. While DMs will only work between two users after launch, the website has promised to roll out group messaging, media support, and end-to-end encryption “down the line.” However, Dorsey Bluesky came off the board in May and after he claimed that the website “literally repeats all the mistakes” it made while running Twitter.
Update, September 4, 3:10 PM ET: This story has been updated since publication. The section in the original story that concluded that the flow of users was likely of Brazilian origin was replaced by statistics published by Bluesky on September 4 that confirmed this to be true. At the same time, additional details were added to the story about the increase in followers, likes and reposts on the platform.
