Social network Bluesky said on Thursday evening that more than 1 million people had registered on the platform in 24 hours, making it one of the busiest days for the company, UNN reports citing TechCrunch.
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As indicated, this growth also means that the social network has passed the 16 million mark in total.
The platform's announcement came a few hours after Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri said that Threads had more than 15 million registered users in November. He added that the Meta-owned platform has seen 1 million users sign up per day over the past three months.
Bluesky also encountered some problems on Thursday, as service was cut off for some users because one of the company's Internet service providers had cable issues that were superimposed on other malfunctions, according to a Bluesky developer.
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The decentralized social network has experienced a steady influx of users over the past few months due to various events, such as the ban of X in Brazil, moderation issues on Threads, and the recent US election results. X's owner Elon Musk was a well-known supporter of US President-elect Donald Trump, and the social network (formerly known as Twitter), as the publication points out, "often promoted pro-Trump views in users' algorithmic feeds". After the US presidential election results, more than a million new people registered on the platform in a week, Bluesky reported on Tuesday.
At the time of writing, a surge in Bluesky registrations over the past 24 hours has also propelled the app to the top of the free apps chart in the US App Store, followed by ChatGPT and Threads.
Bluesky is still much smaller than Threads, which has over 275 million active users, and X. However, the platform's CEO Jay Graeber said earlier this week that Bluesky has higher engagement than X.