Brazilian Users Flock to Bluesky After Elon Musk’s X Is Banned

Elon Musk’s X is still Forbidden In Brazil.

Also, Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Morais Said Any user who tries to access the old Twitter via a VPN will be fined thousands of dollars per day.

So Brazilian posters need a new place to post their posts. And it seems that many Brazilian X users have found a new online social media platform in the form of X competitor Bluesky.

Last week, just five days after Brazil banned Musk’s X in the country for failing to appoint a legal representative, Bluesky announce In the past few days alone, 2.6 million new users have joined the platform.

Blue Sky said 85 percent of its millions of new subscribers are from Brazil.

Blue Sky on Friday announce That morning, we surpassed 3 million new users.

This brings BlueSky’s total user base to 9 million, 50% of whom joined the platform in the past week.

Bluesky user base grows after Brazil’s X ban

Blue Sky is X Rival Received Before Elon Musk acquired the company, Twitter invested $13 million in it. But Bluesky is much smaller than X and its main competitor, Meta-owned Threads.

But even without the massive backing of the company that owns both Facebook and Instagram, Bluesky has managed to remain competitive, often considered the third most popular microblogging platform behind X and Threads. Bluesky has become a staple for certain niches, such as artists and more progressive users who have grown weary of Musk’s right-wing politics.

Then there’s Bluesky, an invitation-only platform. Accumulate As some social media users flee X due to Musk’s leadership, it is expected to have 2 million users by November 2023. Bluesky Public And in February of this year, we eliminated the invitation requirement.

In May, Bluesky shared that it was coming. 6 million users — It appears that the number has been achieved. July.

It took Bluesky about 8 months to get 4 million new users, and as a result, it grew from 2 million to 6 million users. Thanks to the feud between Elon Musk and Moraes, Bluesky was able to add 3 million new users in just one week.

So what’s next for Bluesky? In a post sharing its new 9 million user base number, Bluesky promised that a long-requested feature, video uploads, will be coming to the platform soon.

Moreover, with the feud between Brazil and Musk showing no signs of ending, Blue Sky is likely to continue to benefit from X being banned in Brazil.