Rapid growth: Bluesky cracks the 16 million mark and overtakes the Fediverse
Bluesky continues to grow rapidly and is now growing almost as fast as Threads. The service has a total of 16 million accounts, more than the entire Fediverse.
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The short messaging service Bluesky has cracked the 16 million account mark, with the latest million being added within around a day and a half. This means that the Twitter alternative is currently growing almost as fast as Threads; Meta's competitor activated one million new accounts per day at the end of October. Bluesky has also overtaken the entire Fediverse, with the network of various services – led by Mastodon – reaching just over 15 million new accounts –, although only some of these are still active.
Threads before Bluesky and before Mastodon
The current figures on the use of Bluesky come from a statistics page that is filled with internal data. According to this, a total of well over 500 million posts were made on the short message service, with a good one million accounts being active every day. According to this, the momentum in the short messaging services continues to be on the side of Bluesky, Threads has recently annoyed its users several times, with many currently promoting accounts with the competitor. Mastodon, the next largest Twitter alternative, currently only has just under 900,000 monthly active users, while the significantly higher figure of almost 9 million accounts includes many accounts that are no longer active.
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Although Bluesky, Threads and Mastodon are backed by a huge US corporation, a start-up and a non-profit organization, what they all have in common is that they want to take over Twitter's legacy. Since Elon Musk took over the network and renamed it X, many users have left the service. The three competitors are not without exception against each other; in the first countries, Threads accounts can now be connected directly to Mastodon and the so-called Fediverse. Bluesky can also be connected to Mastodon, and the link even works in both directions.
For Bluesky, the latest growth is possibly the biggest in its short history; in mid-October, more than 500,000 accounts were created in just one day. Before that, more than one million users from Brazil had switched from X to Bluesky within a few days. What is new now is the focus on the USA, X's core market. Thousands of so-called starter packs, user-generated collections of accounts that can be followed with a single click, are now helping with the mass migration. Such starter packs are also available for heise Medien employee accounts.
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