Bluesky claims that 1 million people have registered on the platform in the last 24 hours

Bluesky said this on Thursday night Over 1 million people have registered on the platform over the last 24 hours, making this one among the busiest days for the company. This also meant that the social network crossed the overall mark of 16 million users.

The platform’s announcement comes hours after Instagram chief Adam Mosseri said Threads had seen greater than 15 million registrations in November. He added that over the last three months, the Meta-owned platform has recorded 1 million registrations per day.

Bluesky also had teething problems Thursday as some users were unable to make use of services because one among the company’s ISPs had a cable issue that combined with other network problems, in accordance with Bluesky developer.

Over the past few months, the decentralized social network has seen a gradual influx of users amid various events reminiscent of the X ban in Brazil, moderation issues at Threads, and the recent US election results. After the announcement of the results of the US presidential election, over a million recent people registered on the platform inside per week, the company said on Tuesday.

At the time of writing, a surge in Bluesky sign-ups over the past 24 hours has put the app at the top of the list of free apps in the US App Store, followed by ChatGPT and Threads.

Bluesky might be smaller than Threads, which has over 275 million energetic users, and Elon Musk’s X. However, the platform’s CEO Jay Graber published earlier this week that Bluesky has more involvement than X.

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Last month, Bluesky said it had raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Blockchain Capital with participation from Alumni Ventures, True Ventures, SevenX, Darkmode’s Amir Shevat and Kubernetes co-founder Joe Beda. On the product front, the company said it plans to launch subscriptions.