Growing frustrations with Twitter – since then renamed to X – have led users to seek alternative short-form social networks. Meta’s Threads grew at a breakneck speed, but the new network that everyone is talking about is Bluesky.
Bluesky just reached 24 million users. You can see the number tick up on Jaz’s Bluesky tracker. There have been over 700 million posts and 3.1 billion likes on the fledgling social network.
A few days ago, US representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became the first user to reach more than 1 million followers (the one exception is Bluesky’s own…