The day isn't even over yet Bluesky has already seen its biggest influx of new users in a single-day

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.

    • PaulHulford@lemmy.worldEnglish
      48·
      2 years ago

      Each current member usually get at least one invite to share biweekly. That’s how they have been growing it.

      • PlasterAnalyst@kbin.social
        42·
        2 years ago

        Google+ did the same thing when it rolled out, then they tried to force people to use it before they cancelled the project.

        • kescusay@lemmy.worldEnglish
          17·
          2 years ago

          I’m still salty about that. Google+ was fantastic on release. Simple, clean, elegant, and fast. Then they steadily, systematically fucked it up. By the time it was cancelled, it had become unusable.

      • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        101·
        2 years ago

        So, in the shape of a pyramid? Sounds like a good business model. I wonder if anyone has ever done that before? (yes, it’s a joke)

    • Clent@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Yes but I’m sure many recorded invites and didn’t bother. Musk musking TSFKAT ( the-site-formerly-known-as-twitter) was the needed motivation to accept it.

    • nucleative@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Invite only is a fascinating choice for a social network that requires network effect to succeed.

      Gmail is the most famous/successful example but interesting to note that email is a federated network that can interoperate with every other email address too.

      What about this bluesky network?