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Bluesky Statistics – How Many Users Does Bluesky Have?
Bluesky has become one of the fastest-growing social networks since its public launch in February 2024.
Keep reading to see our full list of Bluesky statistics for 2025 including user numbers, downloads, and site traffic.
Key statistics
- Bluesky has 27.44 million registered users as of January 2025.
- In November 2024, Bluesky saw its highest number of downloads at 7.85 million.
- The U.S. has the highest share of monthly Bluesky site visitors with 42.44% of total visitors, followed by Brazil with 10.28%.
- Users in the UK make up 7.53% of Bluesky traffic.
- The majority (60.45%) of Bluesky users are aged 34 or under, and 61.53% are male.
- It is estimated that there have been over 800 million posts on Bluesky since its launch.
- Bluesky has 20 full-time employees and around 100 external contractors.
Bluesky overview
| Founder | Jack Dorsey |
| CEO | Jay Graber |
| Public launch | February 2024 |
| Headquarters | Seattle, Washington |
| Registered users | 27.44 million (as of January 2025) |
| Full-time employees | 20 |
| Funding | $23 million |
Bluesky founders and employees
Bluesky was a research project initially started in 2019 by Jack Dorsey when he was CEO of Twitter, eventually becoming an independent company in 2021. Following Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter in 2022, the two companies went their separate ways and Bluesky became available as an invite-only service in February 2023. Dorsey left Bluesky’s board in May 2024.
According to a post by CEO Jay Graber, Bluesky had just 20 full-time employees as of November 2024, meaning the platform had roughly one million users per employee at the time.
Jack Dorsey
Jack Dorsey is an American businessman, best known as a co-founder of Twitter which he created in March 2006 alongside Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams. Dorsey became CEO of Twitter in 2015 and remained until 2021 when he announced his resignation. He left the board of directors at Twitter in May 2022, a few months before the platform was sold to Elon Musk.
Dorsey joined the board of directors at Bluesky in February 2022 and announced his departure from the board in May 2024.
Jay Graber
Jay Graber is a software engineer and has been the CEO of Bluesky since August 2021. Her background includes time at bitcoin mining and cryptocurrency companies, and her net worth is an estimated $5 million.
Number of Bluesky users
As of January 2025, Bluesky has 27.44 million registered users. The platform hit 20 million registered users in November 2024, doubling its user numbers compared to September 2024 (10 million).
Number of Bluesky downloads by month
The number of downloads Bluesky has received from the Google Play Store and the App Store has fluctuated since its official launch in February 2023. However, downloads saw a significant spike between September and December 2024 with peak downloads of 7.85 million in November 2024.
This surge in downloads coincided with huge swathes of users leaving X (formerly Twitter) amid concerns about the platform since Elon Musk’s takeover in 2022. These concerns include the scaling back of content moderation, an increase in content posted by bots, and rising levels of bigotry and negativity being shared on X.
| Date | Bluesky Downloads |
| February 2023 | 0.02 million |
| March 2023 | 0.09 million |
| April 2023 | 0.58 million |
| May 2023 | 0.25 million |
| June 2023 | 0.09 million |
| July 2023 | 0.62 million |
| August 2023 | 0.32 million |
| September 2023 | 0.47 million |
| October 2023 | 0.63 million |
| November 2023 | 0.41 million |
| December 2023 | 0.51 million |
| January 2024 | 0.18 million |
| February 2024 | 1.25 million |
| March 2024 | 0.16 million |
| April 2024 | 0.26 million |
| May 2024 | 0.08 million |
| June 2024 | 0.3 million |
| July 2024 | 0.07 million |
| August 2024 | 0.76 million |
| September 2024 | 2.85 million |
| October 2024 | 2.76 million |
| November 2024 | 7.85 million |
| December 2024 | 1.76 million |
Bluesky web traffic statistics
Bluesky received 141 million visitors in January 2025, down 0.58% compared to 145.5 million in December 2024. The device distribution of visitors was almost an even split with 50.87% of people visiting from desktops and 49.13% of people visiting via mobile.
Bluesky web traffic by country
The latest data from January 2025 shows that the U.S. has the largest share of visitors to the Bluesky site with 42.44%. The country with the second biggest share of Bluesky visitors is Brazil with 10.28%, followed by the United Kingdom with 7.53% of all visitors.
| Country | Traffic Share (%) |
| United States | 42.44% |
| Brazil | 10.28% |
| United Kingdom | 7.53% |
| Japan | 5.43% |
| Germany | 3.70% |
In November 2024, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber stated that the countries with the most Bluesky users are The U.S., Japan, and Brazil.
Demographics of Bluesky users
Men are more likely to use Bluesky with 61.53% of visitors being male compared to 38.47% being women. That’s a slightly lower share than X whose users are 67.02% male.
| Platform | Male | Female |
| Bluesky | 61.53% | 38.47% |
| X | 67.02% | 32.98% |
| 55.26% | 44.74% | |
| 55.16% | 44.84% | |
| 54.44% | 45.56% | |
| YouTube | 60.95% | 39.05% |
| TikTok | 54.45% | 45.54% |
Bluesky users are also more likely to be younger with 33.2% being in the 18-24 age group. Just 5.46% of Bluesky users are over the age of 65. More than half (60.45%) of users are aged 34 or less.
| Age group | Percentage of Bluesky users |
| 18-24 | 33.2% |
| 25-34 | 27.25% |
| 35-44 | 14.93% |
| 45-54 | 10.62% |
| 55-64 | 8.54% |
| Over 65 | 5.45% |
Bluesky funding rounds
Bluesky raised $8 million in its initial seed round in July 2023, following its invite-only beta lunch in February 2023. The company then raised a further $15 million in its Series A funding round in October 2024, amounting to a total of $23 million in funding so far.
The Series A round was led by Blockchain Capital and also included Alumni Ventures, Seven X, Amir Shevat of Darkmode and, co-creator of Kubernetes, Joe Beda.
What technology does Bluesky use?
Bluesky is a decentralised social media app, meaning it runs on a network of computers rather than one central server. This means Bluesky is controlled by the users rather than a single authority.
It is built on an open source protocol called the AT Protocol, meaning people outside the company can see how it is built and how it is being developed.
Bluesky reportedly plans to adopt federation, whereby multiple separately operated communities can exist as part of the open source network. For example, another developer outside of the Bluesky company could build a new social app using the AT protocol, and users port their existing Bluesky followers and data to this new app.
Bluesky moderation features
In December 2023, the Bluesky Safety account posted an announcement detailing a number of moderation updates. These updates included “more advanced automated tooling” in order to flag content found to be in violation of its Community Guidelines. These reports are then sent to Bluesky’s moderation team for review.
Bluesky also has moderation features like the option to users to block or mute certain accounts. The app does not yet give users the option to make their profiles private although many users have requested this feature.
In October 2023, Bluesky added a feature to warn users of links that may be misleading by showing a warning if a user clicks on a potentially dubious link.
Which countries is Bluesky available in?
There is not an exhaustive list of countries that Bluesky is available in, but some of them include:
- Brazil
- Canada
- Chile
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- Japan
- South Korea
- Spain
- United Kingdom
- United States
Anyone over the age of 13 can join Bluesky provided it is legal in their country. Some reports suggest that Bluesky is blocked to users in Pakistan and China, but this has not been publicly confirmed by either country or by Bluesky itself.
The media and Bluesky
A number of media channels and journalists have joined Bluesky, with many ditching X for good in the hope of a better experience on Bluesky. Notable accounts including the Guardian newspaper and NPR made the switch alongside other high-profile figures such as:
- Mark Hamill
- Stephen King
- Lizzo
- George Takei
- Ben Stiller
- Gabrielle Union
- Barbra Streisand
- Guillermo Del Toro
Most followed UK journalists on Bluesky
The table below shows a list of the most followed UK-based journalists currently on Bluesky.
