Bluesky passes the 15 million user mark

Shortform posting platform Bluesky crossed the 15 million user mark today, amid a recent surge in user signups in the wake of the US presidential election. That is according to a statistics tracking site composed by Bluesky developer Jazusing the Bluesky API.

The platform, which relies on the decentralized AT protocol, has added about a million new users in the past week. Bluesky COO Rose Wang recently shared this The edge that the “majority” of new users flocking to the platform are from the US. The Bluesky app is currently number one on the iOS app store, followed by Threads, ChatGPT and the Google app.

Meta’s Threads continues to outpace Bluesky, recently reaching 275 million monthly users and growing at a rate of over a million signups per day. But Bluesky offers a completely different experience. Both are ad-free (for now), but where Threads uses a single meta-created algorithmic feed, Bluesky offers user-created algorithmic feeds in addition to the ‘Discover’ and ‘Popular With Friends’ feeds.