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Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only (mashable.com)

submitted 1 year ago by geosoco@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] flo24@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

isn’t bluesky invite only?

[–] PaulHulford@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] PlasterAnalyst@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Doug@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In fairness, Gmail had a similar invite system when it launched and that's been way more successful than G+

[–] wjrii@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gmail was also both "federated" and an insanely good product compared to its contemporaries. G+ had a couple of interesting innovations, but it wasn't all that special and invite-only on a closed ecosystem is very iffy.

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Gmail was literally the best. 1GB space at launch when you'd get a dozen MB in Hotmail and others, slick fast UI in a browser.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gmail was invite only at first probably because Google didn't want it to grow faster than they could buy hard drives. It gave you a gigabyte of email storage which at the time was huge. I'm certain they did that for technical reasons.

[–] 0_0j@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

"i am the choosen one!" As if...

Boy, our servers are ducktaped!