More than 20 million accounts have now been set up on the short messaging service BlueSky, and four million have been added since Friday alone. This means that X’s competitor is now growing as fast as Meta’s threads, where a million are added every day. Although Bluesky still has less than a tenth the number of Threads users, the gap in the number of daily accesses has narrowed, according to analysis company SimilarWeb. While at least on a particular active daythreads boss Adam Mosseri debunks the numbers And reassures us that we are far ahead. The internal number of threads is not public.
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The great migration between social networks
SimilarWeb has investigated to the best of its knowledge.BlueSky overtook Threads in terms of website traffic in the US more than a month ago. This service is now way ahead here and is behind only Threads worldwide. The backdrop to this development is a huge wave of departures in X since the US elections. Elon Musk’s short messaging service gained more reach than ever on the day Donald Trump’s victory led the American billionaire. But never before have so many accounts been deactivated in a single day. However, the analytics company does not have access to internal numbers, but relies on various sources and access statistics for the apps.
BlueSky himself was once again happy to reach the latest milestone. Company boss Jay Graber pointed out that that they only employ 20 peopleBut seeing its success, I will hire more people. Around the same time, your service released an update, which, among other things, will ensure a significant improvement in performance. Meanwhile, developments have continued, with several major Austrian accounts on It was organized by the famous news presenter Armin Wolf.
In recent times, Bluesky has established itself as the foremost Twitter alternative with threads, with Mastodon, third in the league, lagging behind. Thousands of people are helping in this collective step so-called starter packWhich are user-generated collections of accounts that you can follow with one click. Overall, all three services have benefited from the return of Elon Musk’s short messaging service. They are also not in complete competition with each other; In the first states, Threads accounts can be linked directly to Mastodon and so-called Fediverse. Bluesky may also be linked to Mastodon; The connection also works in both directions.
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