Hacker News with Generative AI: User Growth

Bluesky tops 20M users, narrowing gap with Instagram Threads (techcrunch.com)
Bluesky, the social network and X competitor, has been benefiting from a surge of departures from the Elon Musk-owned app formerly known as Twitter. Today, Bluesky has hit a major milestone: it’s topped 20 million users.

Social Media, Twitter, Competition, User Growth

16 points by cannibalXxx 2 days ago | 3 comments

Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day (jazco.dev)

Social Media, User Growth, Bluesky

208 points by henrijn 4 days ago | 229 comments

We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour (bsky.app)

Social Media, User Growth, Product Updates

125 points by Funes- 5 days ago | 242 comments

Bluesky crosses the 15M user mark (theverge.com)
Short-form posting platform Bluesky crossed the 15 million user mark today amid a recent surge of user signups in the wake of the US presidential election.

Social Media, User Growth, Bluesky, Twitter Alternative

10 points by yoelo 8 days ago | 0 comments

Bluesky capitalizes on X woes with funding and user growth (theregister.com)
Bluesky says it has hauled in more than 13 million users, up from about three million when it opened to the public in February 2024.

Social Media, Competition, Funding, User Growth

9 points by PaulHoule 10 days ago | 2 comments

1M Users (spacehey.com)

Social Media, Web Services, User Growth

787 points by theneedful 80 days ago | 184 comments

Pinterest Scaled to 11M Users with Only 6 Engineers (medium.com)

Pinterest, Engineering, Scaling, User Growth

13 points by brainer 158 days ago | 4 comments

Scaling Clubhouse From 10K to 10M Users In 6 Months With Postgres (stepchange.work)