Bluesky saw a surge in new user sign-ups after Elon Musk announced he would soon charge all X users a small monthly fee.
Musk’s announcement earlier this week backfired as Bluesky hit a daily active user record afterward.
According to data from analytics firm Similarweb, Bluesky’s Android app saw half a million daily active users on the day of Musk’s announcement and its web traffic increased even higher.
On Android, the daily active users metric was up 20.6 percent for Bluesky.
Bluesky saw a total of 53,585 new signups in one day after Musk’s announcement — 5 percent of the platform’s user base of around 1.13 million accounts, reports TechCrunch.
In a live-streamed interaction with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the X owner floated the idea that the social network may no longer be a free site.
“It’s the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots,” Musk said.
