Bluesky User Count Reaches 15 Million as More People Seek Alternatives to X

Bluesky, one of the many microblogging platforms, has officially reached the 15 million registered users mark. A month ago, Bluesky had 13 million subscribers, showing that the social network is growing rapidly as more people look for alternatives to X.

Bluesky continues to grow, but is still far behind its competitors

The figure was first reported by Stats for Bluesky, a website that uses the platform's API to pull statistics about the social network (via The Verge). According to the website, Bluesky now has more than 15.2 million registered users. By comparison, Bluesky had just 2 million users in November 2023.

Bluesky still lags far behind its competitors, especially X, which has over 500 million active users worldwide. Threads Meta is also more popular, with 275 million monthly active users and growing at a rate of over a million sign-ups per day. However, Bluesky is increasingly gaining attention from users who are unhappy with both X and Threads.

The recent episode in Brazil that led to X being temporarily banned prompted hundreds of thousands of Brazilians to try Bluesky. More recently, Elon Musk’s political involvement with Donald Trump has also prompted more people to look for alternatives to X. Bluesky is now the most downloaded app on the US App Store, with Threads following closely behind.

Bluesky emerged in 2021 as a “proof of concept” for the decentralized AT protocol. In 2019, then-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that the company would fund an initiative that would lead to Bluesky. The platform no longer has a relationship with X, and the two became competitors after Elon Musk bought Twitter.

A few weeks ago, Bluesky announced plans to introduce a paid subscription with additional features, similar to X Premium (formerly Twitter Blue). The platform assures that it will not introduce a paywall for the social network.