Bluesky reaches milestone of 25 million users

Bluesky, the emerging social media platform, reached the important milestone of 25 million users early Friday morning.

The site continues to benefit from people looking for an alternative to X (formerly Twitter), with Bluesky seeing phenomenal growth since Election Day. According to a Nov. 13 post from Bluesky CEO Jay Graber, the site had 6 million users at the end of August, nearly 11 million at the end of October, and reached 15 million users on Nov. 15. Another 5 million users were added in just five days. reach 20 million users by November 19th.

User growth has slowed somewhat in recent weeks. Competitors like Meta-owned Threads have cloned some of Bluesky’s most popular features. But Bluesky has had its upward trend mainly at the expense of

The onslaught of media groups, organizations, companies, sports teams and celebrities creating accounts in the last month has helped Bluesky establish itself as a viable and legitimate social media platform.

Bluesky launched in February 2023 as an invite-only social media platform. The site fully opened to the public in February of this year and ran until the second half of 2024, with the presidential election and the resulting toxicity of X, turbocharging sign-ups. Bluesky was originally founded in 2019 by then Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Dorsey separated from Bluesky in 2022.