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Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only (mashable.com)

submitted 1 year ago by geosoco@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Just around 24 hours after Musk made his comments, more than 42,000 new users joined Bluesky, making it the biggest signup day yet for the currently invite-only platform that launched earlier this year.

Bluesky saw a total of 53,585 new signups by the end of Tuesday, September 19. The new users gained in that single day make up 5 percent of the platform's entire user base of 1,125,499 total accounts.

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.

It's impossible to know whether Musk's comments about charging users to post on X really played a role in this, but it almost certainly had some effect.

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[–] geosoco@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I signed up ages ago too, but I don't think they ever sent them out like that. I got an invite from someone else.

[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh well sounds like I’m not missing much.

[–] geosoco@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends on your interests, my feed is too active. It's a lot of shitposting, some academics, journalists, and some just very online people.

A lot of very prolific folks from Twitter moved there.

[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have any extra invites?

[–] geosoco@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Sadly, I'm out at the moment.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

They did early on. I got one that way when it was mostly developers and the app was basically a super early beta.

It seems like that slowed down when they realized the invite tree is a really good moderation tool. Like if they catch a spammer or CSAM pervert or whatever, they can see who invited them and nip that shit in the bud.

Also, they recently passed 1 million users and the developers said they’ll have to make some backend changes to handle 10 million users. So, they apparently really do need to manage growth and can’t just open it up.

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

They do send out invites to the waiting list but it definitely don't represent the majority of invites being sent out