The day isn’t even over yet Bluesky has already seen its biggest influx of new users in a single-day
Bluesky has seen its biggest signup day ever after Elon Musk claimed he would charge X users a fee to use the platform.
Would you pay to use X, the platform formerly known as Twitter? Apparently, all of these new Bluesky users don’t seem so keen to do so.
Bluesky, the “decentralized” X-alternative social media platform, just had its biggest influx of new users ever on Tuesday. This happened just one day after Elon Musk made headlines during a livestream with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying he plans to charge all of X’s users a “small monthly payment” to use the platform.
As of 2:40pm ET, more than 42,000 new users have joined Bluesky, making Tuesday, September 19, the biggest signup day yet for the currently invite-only platform that launched earlier this year. At publishing time of this article, Bluesky had 1,113,820 users in total.
The new user signups are tracked via the third-party website “Bluesky Stats.” Looking over Bluesky signup numbers on the tracker for the past month, it appears that the platform usually sees from 10,000 to 20,000 new signups per day. Bluesky has doubled its usual daily new user numbers already, with many more hours left in the day still to go.