laurenshof, 7 months ago

Bluesky crosses the mark for 2 million accounts

Bluesky has now 2 million accounts, crossing the milestone 2 months after reaching the one million mark. It is a great eye-catching headline about a network in growth, doubling its user base in two months, and going from 500k to 800k daily posts. But underneath it all, the numbers are quite a bit more mixed.

Looking at the amount of posts that people make on the platform, there is little growth in the same time period at all. The following graph shows the amount of posts per day, in thousands.

graph showcasing the trend of posts per day over the last 2 months. it showcases a slightly upward trend for the first month, and a slight downward trend for the second monthThere are a few things of note here: September 20th was in inflection point of the network; this was the day that Elon Musk floated the idea of charging everyone to use X. This lead to a massive increase in signups, as well as a great boost in posts per day.

After that moment, total posts per day has not increased anymore, even though the network grew from 1.1m accounts to 2m accounts. If we look at posts per day per account:

graph showing posts per user per day. there is a clear downwards trend visible, from around 0.58/day mid sept to below 0.4 mid novThere is a clear downwards trend visible in the amount of posts per user per day. This indicates that people continue to sign up for the network, but that the network does not manage to retain the new users into actually contributing and posting.

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