Just around 24 hours after Musk made his comments, more than 42,000 new users joined Bluesky, making it the biggest signup day yet for the currently invite-only platform that launched earlier this year.

Bluesky saw a total of 53,585 new signups by the end of Tuesday, September 19. The new users gained in that single day make up 5 percent of the platform’s entire user base of 1,125,499 total accounts.

The new user signups are tracked via the third-party website “Bluesky Stats.” Looking over Bluesky signup numbers on the tracker for the past month, it appears that the platform usually sees from 10,000 to 20,000 new signups per day. Bluesky has doubled its usual daily new user numbers already, with many more hours left in the day still to go.

It’s impossible to know whether Musk’s comments about charging users to post on X really played a role in this, but it almost certainly had some effect.

    • vortic
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      161 year ago

      I agree but I don’t understand why. What motivated him to sink 1/4th of his net worth into Twitter then kill it?

      • @Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago
        1. The jet tracker

        2. Twitter is a huge place where leftists organize

        3. Probably wants to pull a reddit and push Trump

        • @uis@lemmy.world
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          41 year ago
          1. I wouldn’t say that. It was filled with far-right and some people who like others to suffer and bring to suicide indie game developers.
          • @Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
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            11 year ago

            It’s also used by fascists but there have been a lot of genuine leftist organizing going down deep in the cracks of that hellsite.

      • LUHG
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        111 year ago

        Knowing this nutter he’s probably doing it so people can’t talk about the crappy Tesla QC.

      • @Syntha@sh.itjust.works
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        41 year ago

        The lawsuit he was destined to lose. Why do people here so often act like this was his masterplan all along? He fucked around and tried to back out, then Twitter sued him into buying the company. From what I can tell this is just Musk being Musk, reportedly he has surrounded himself with yes-men.

    • @Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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      121 year ago

      If that were true, the investors who paid him billions for the take over will want his head on a spike.

      • @baked_tea@lemmy.world
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        121 year ago

        If you’d know who these investors are, you’d know running twitter to ground is their goal at this point as well

          • @cynar@lemmy.world
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            91 year ago

            Plausible deniability, combined with opportunism. If they brought it, and shut it down, it would be painfully obvious. This could cause significant problems or pushback on them. Musk being an idiot provided an opportunity to them. They back musk, and he makes it non viable, however he wants. All the public outrage gets focused onto musk (who likes the attention).

            I still can’t decide between the 2 options. Either musk is just THAT big of an idiot, or if it’s the result of some backroom deal. Both seem feasible.

          • @stephen01king@lemmy.zip
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            121 year ago

            The theory is they’re not trying to make money, but is trying to make it harder to use Twitter for organizing protests or share ideas that threaten their status quo.

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      71 year ago

      As Twitter is a big PR tool for Ukraine he’s again doing Putin a favour.