The social network Bluesky has been growing at a rapid rate ever since the US presidential election concluded. A representative for the company said in an email on Monday that the site has added over 1 million users a day for the past few days, an increase of over 5.5 million users since the election on Nov. 5, pushing it to over 20 million users by Tuesday.
There are at least two ever-changing counters created by Bluesky users that track the site’s numbers. One counter is from Theo Sanderson, a professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; another counter is by a user who simply goes by Natalie on the site.
Bluesky is currently No. 1 on the free app section of the US iPhone App Store, beating out popular social network Threads and AI assistant ChatGPT. That’s quite a jump since October, when it was at No. 181, according to TechCrunch, citing figures from app…
