X Rival Bluesky gains over 1 million users in a week: report

A week after the US presidential election, X replaces blue sky Earned over a million According to statistics, most new users live in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom Blue Sky Spokesperson.

The influx of new users pushes Bluesky to a new milestone: the platform spans 15 million User tag. A month ago, there was 12 million user. The blue sky is at the top It topped Tuesday's iPhone free app rankings, ahead of Threads, ChatGPT and Google.

according to new york timesBluesky benefits from X users leaving platform because of its owners Elon Musk and the results of the U.S. presidential election.

But Bluesky is no stranger to changes in X. In October, after X announced that the block button would no longer prevent someone from viewing public posts, it gained 1.2 million new users in two days.

Meta's Threads also appear to be attracting more users; it's passed 175 million users July and 275 million The company said in November.

What is the blue sky?

Bluesky was originally independent research project In 2019, within what was then Twitter, an open standard was created for social media platforms so that apps could run between them.

and established his own company in 2022.

Bluesky adds .bsky.social to the end of your user handle. So if your name is “example”, the user handle @example.bsky.social will be yours.

Who owns the blue sky?

The blue sky is mainly Owned by CEO Jay Graber and the Blue Sky Team. The company's board of directors consists of the following persons JABO/XMPP Inventor Jeremy Miller, Mike Masnick;and Kinjal Shah.

What is the difference between Twitter and Bluesky?

While Bluesky may look a lot like the X, it gives users more options. For example, when you sign up, you can choose to host your data with Bluesky or your own custom server.

Bluesky users also have more control over what they see when scrolling. They can access feeds created by other users, such as Science, Arts, and News.

The platform is currently ad-free.

“We believe there have to be better strategies for sustaining social networks that don't involve selling user data to create ads,” Bluesky said. wrote in a blog post July 2023.

Another difference: Bluesky’s limit Posts are 300 characters long, slightly more than the 280 characters for X free users.

What do posts on Bluesky look like compared to posts on X?

Here’s what a recent post from Mark Cuban on Bluesky looks like:

Hello world with less hate

— Mark Cuban (@mcuban.bsky.social) November 12, 2024 8:37 am

Here is one of Cuban’s recent posts on X:

how to drive @X Users are crazy

— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) November 12, 2024

Is Bluesky still invitation-only?

Bluesky is invitation-only until February it's open to everyone. The invitation-only platform has amassed 3 million users, including 800,000 new First day on the market.