Rapid growth: BlueSky crosses 16 million mark and overtakes Fediverse

Short messaging service Bluesky has breached the 16 million account mark, with the last million added in about a day and a half. This means that Twitter Options is currently growing almost as fast as its competitor Meta at the end of October; One million new accounts activated per dayIn addition, Bluesky has overtaken the networks of various services – especially Mastodon – having, according to various calculations, established just over 15 million accounts – but only a few of them are still active.

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Sources before Bluesky and before Mastodon

Current usage figures come from BlueSky from a statistics siteWhich is filled with internal data. Accordingly, more than 500 million posts in total were posted on the short messaging service, and recently more than 1 million accounts were active per day. Accordingly, while speed in short messaging services is still in Bluesky’s favor, Threads has troubled its users at times recently, and many currently advertise with competitors there. Mastodon is currently just emerging as the next biggest Twitter alternative Approximately 900,000 monthly active usersThe A very high number of accounts, approximately 9 million This includes many accounts that are no longer active.

Although there is a giant American corporation, a start-up, and a non-profit organization behind Bluesky, Threads, and Mastodon, one thing they all have in common is that they want to inherit Twitter’s legacy. Ever since Elon Musk took over the network and renamed it X, many users have abandoned the service. The three competitors are not always against each other; In the first few countries, Threads accounts can now be linked directly to Mastodon and so-called Fediverse. Bluesky may also be linked to Mastodon; The connection also works in both directions.

For Bluesky, the latest growth may be the largest in its recent history as in mid-October, over 500,000 accounts had already been set up in just one day. Previously, more than one million users in Brazil switched from X to BlueSky in just a few days. What is new is the concentration on the United States, X’s main market. We are now helping with massive transfers thousands of so-called starter packsWhich are user-generated collections of accounts that you can follow with one click. also for Heise Median employee accounts Such is a starter pack.

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