Bluesky retains rising: The corporate introduced that as of Friday morning, it had added 3 million new customers, bringing its complete consumer rely to greater than 9 million.
In different phrases, the social platform’s consumer base has grown by round 50 p.c within the week or so since a Brazilian courtroom banned X (previously Twitter). The ban despatched Bluesky to the highest of the free iPhone app charts in Brazil, the place it’s presently ranked quantity two, behind Meta’s competing app Threads.
Along with sharing the most recent consumer numbers, Bluesky additionally assured customers previous and new that video help is “coming quickly.”
The platform began as a Twitter-backed initiative to create an open social protocol, however has since develop into an impartial, venture-backed startup and absolutely opened to the general public in February.
In an earlier publish about progress, Bluesky stated that 85% of its new customers are Brazilian. Bringing on so many new customers so shortly has led to occasional technical points.
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