Bluesky in particular saw huge growth in November, topping 20 million users, and at the time of this writing is still gaining several users per second.

Bluesky hasn't gained enough users yet for banks to engage on the Twitter-like social media startup, but as its traffic picks up it may hold some appeal for banks yearning for the initial days of ...

More than 24 million users are now on the burgeoning app, with new users often citing the growing number of bots, ads and toxic rhetoric on X as the reason for their migration.

While Bluesky's user base is growing quickly, the company remains small in terms of its funding and staff, which Wang describes as "a tiny team of 20" employees, including herself and CEO Jay Graber.

Many X users in Turkey are migrating to Bluesky after X has restricted visibility to dozens of accounts in the country following nationwide protests sparked by the detention of İstanbul Mayor Ekrem ...

The migration to Bluesky, especially after the 2024 U.S. presidential election, reflects a growing dissatisfaction with centralized platforms and their handling of political content.

But Bluesky’s growth trajectory — with a user base that has more than doubled since October — could make it a serious competitor to other social platforms. But with growth comes growing pains.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has garnered 1 million followers on Bluesky, and The Hill reported she is the first to do so. By comparison, she has 12.8 million followers on X.

Under the proposal, users of the Bluesky app, or other apps that use the underlying ATProtocol, could go into their settings and allow or disallow the usage of their Bluesky data across four ...

Bluesky competitor X, meanwhile, is feeding users’ posts into sister company xAI to help train its AI chatbot Grok. Last fall, it changed its privacy policy to allow third parties to train their ...