Bluesky already has over 9 million users

Bluesky continues to grow: the company announced that it had signed up 3 million new users on Friday morning, bringing its total user base to over 9 million.

In other words, the social media platform’s user base has grown by about 50 percent in the week or two since a Brazilian court banned X (formerly Twitter), a ban that catapulted Bluesky to the top of the free iPhone app charts in Brazil, where it now ranks second behind rival app Meta Threads.

In addition to providing the latest user data, Bluesky also assured old and new users that video support “will be available soon.”

The platform began as a Twitter-backed initiative to create an open social protocol. It has since become an independent, venture-backed startup and opened fully to the public in February.

In an earlier post about growth, Bluesky said that 85% of its new users were Brazilians. Attracting so many new users so quickly led to occasional technical issues.