The Bluesky social network reached 20 million users, after adding a new million accounts in the past 24 hours, confirmed Jay Graber, head of the company.
“Bluesky now has 20 million people!” he exclaimed on his account.
“We have been adding more than a million users a day in the past few days,” he added on the network that threatens to rival X, formerly known as Twitter.
A month and a half ago Bluesky had 6.18 million users, a figure that increased to 10.8 million 30 days ago. The network reached 15 million last Thursday.
Since the former Republican president Donald Trump (2017-2021) defeated the US vice president and Democratic candidate, Kamala Harris, in the elections on November 5, the exodus of users from X to Bluesky has accelerated.
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Bluesky is a decentralized social network started in 2019
The current owner of X, businessman Elon Musk, actively supported Trump during the election campaign. Users and analysts have accused Musk of turning X into a misinformation machine in which hoaxes run rampant while promoting far-right ideology.
Artists like Guillermo Del Toro, Barbra Streisand and Jamie Lee Curtis are some of the notable names who have gone from X to Bluesky in recent days.
The specialized magazine The Hollywood Reporter listed at least 64 renowned artists who have recently left X in favor of Bluesky or who are generating more content on the latter network than on the one owned by Musk.
Bluesky is a decentralized social network started in 2019 by Jack Dorsey, who was also the founder of Twitter, as part of research to create a decentralized communication platform. Dorsey served on Bluesky’s board of directors until May of this year.
With information from EFE.
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