Elon Musk’s X is still Banned In Brazil.
Additionally, Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said that users who try to access old Twitter via a VPN could be fined thousands of dollars per day.
This means that Brazilian contributors need new places to post, and it seems that many Brazilian X users have found a new online social media platform in the form of X’s competitor, Bluesky.
Last week, just five days after Brazil banned Musk’s X in the country for failing to appoint a legal representative, Blue Sky Announced The company said 2.6 million new users have joined the platform in the past few days.
Bluesky said 85% of the millions of new users who have signed up are Brazilian.
Friday, Blue Sky Announced That morning, we hit 3 million new users.
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This brings Bluesky’s total user base to 9 million, with 50% of those users having joined the platform within the past week.
Bluesky’s user base grows after Brazil’s X ban
Blue Sky is X’s rival. Received The company received $13 million in investment from then-Twitter Inc. before Elon Musk acquired it, but Bluesky is much smaller than X and its main competitor, Meta-owned Threads.
But even without major backing from the companies that own both Facebook and Instagram, Bluesky has remained competitive and is often considered the third most popular microblogging platform after X and Threads. Bluesky has become a primary platform for certain niches of users, including artists and progressive users fed up with Musk’s right-wing politics.
and Bluesky, an invitation-only platform. Accumulated As Musk’s leadership caused some social media users to defect from X, 2 million users joined Blue Sky by November 2023. public Then in February of this year, the invitation requirement was abolished.
In May, Blue Sky 6 million users — It looked like they achieved that number. July.
It took Bluesky about 8 months to gain 4 million new users, growing from 2 million to 6 million users. Thanks to Moraes’ feud with Elon Musk and the company, Bluesky was able to gain 3 million new users in just one week.
So what’s next for Bluesky? In a post sharing its new user base of 9 million, Bluesky promised that a long-requested feature, video uploading, will soon be coming to the platform.
Moreover, there seems to be no end in sight to Musk’s feud with Brazil, so Blue Sky will likely continue to benefit from the ban on X in that country.
