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Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only (mashable.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Just around 24 hours after Musk made his comments, more than 42,000 new users joined Bluesky, making it the biggest signup day yet for the currently invite-only platform that launched earlier this year.

Bluesky saw a total of 53,585 new signups by the end of Tuesday, September 19. The new users gained in that single day make up 5 percent of the platform's entire user base of 1,125,499 total accounts.

The new user signups are tracked via the third-party website "Bluesky Stats." Looking over Bluesky signup numbers on the tracker for the past month, it appears that the platform usually sees from 10,000 to 20,000 new signups per day. Bluesky has doubled its usual daily new user numbers already, with many more hours left in the day still to go.

It's impossible to know whether Musk's comments about charging users to post on X really played a role in this, but it almost certainly had some effect.

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[–] WorldWideLem 62 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I was interested in it but at the end of the day Dorsey got Twitter into its initially mediocre state, and he's endorsed RFK Jr. as well as Musk's purchase of Twitter. So should I really expect it to be any better? I'll keep an eye on it but my expectations aren't terribly high.

[–] Evilcoleslaw 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and he's endorsed RFK Jr.

Gross. Yeah Dorsey sucks generally.

as well as Musk's purchase of Twitter.

But I don't hold this part against him. If some moron came along and offered to drastically overpay for my house, for example, I'd endorse the fuck out of that even if he's a shitheel.

[–] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"I have never met Elon, and by all accounts he is terrible. However, I have seen the yacht that he paid for, and it is terrific."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Did you not read the text messages between them? Jack was being a real fan boy

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Of course he's endorsed Musk purchasing Twitter, he made billions off it

[–] Cyberflunk 8 points 1 year ago

I signed up just to see the hype, and it's the same boring Twitter, with less commitment. People just grabbing namespace.