More good news for Bluesky. The X/Twitter clone is really taking off post-election and now has 20 million users.
A trickle is becoming a flood for Bluesky, the social media company that has seen spectacular growth since the presidential election. On Tuesday, the microblogging platform hit 20 million users, after averaging 1 million new users per day over the past five days.
According to a Nov. 13 post by Bluesky CEO Jay Graber, the site had 6 million users in late August, nearly 11 million in late October and hit 15 million users on Nov. 15. It added another 5 million users in just five days, with the explosive growth seen since Nov. 5, the day of the election, accelerating.
Most of this growth seems to be the result of X users on the left who’ve decided X is compromised by association with Elon Musk. Bluesky is essentially a progressive bubble version of X….
