Bluesky is a social network built on an open technology called the AT Protocol. It grew quickly through several big waves of sign-ups. The picture is now more mixed. The number of accounts keeps rising, while daily use of the app has cooled. Here are the latest Bluesky statistics on users, activity, demographics, and how it compares with X and Threads.
Top Bluesky Statistics
- Bluesky had 45 million users as of June 2026, the company said (Bluesky on Bluesky, June 25, 2026).
- 46.7 million users were on Bluesky as of September 26, 2026, per Jaz’s tracker (Jaz’s Bluesky stats tracker).
- Bluesky’s mobile app had 10.4 million monthly active users worldwide in June 2026 (Similarweb via TechCrunch, Aug 2026).
- Bluesky had around 3 million mobile daily active users in July 2026 (Similarweb via TechCrunch, Aug 2026).
- Bluesky’s average monthly app users fell around 52% from Q4 2024 to Q2 2026 (Similarweb via TechCrunch, Aug 2026).
- 4% of US adults say they ever use Bluesky, versus 8% for Threads and 21% for X, in 2025 (Pew Research Center, Americans’ Social Media Use 2025).
- Bluesky grew nearly 60% in 2025, from 25.94 million to 41.41 million users (Bluesky, 2025 Transparency Report).
- Bluesky raised $100 million in Series B funding in April 2025 (Bluesky, Series B announcement).
How Many People Use Bluesky?
1. Bluesky had 45 million users as of June 2026, the company said (Bluesky on Bluesky, June 25, 2026). The app launched in February 2023 as an invite-only platform.
In Jaz’s Bluesky stats tracker, “Users” means the total user count taken directly from the Bluesky API.
2. 46.7 million users were on Bluesky as of September 26, 2026, per Jaz’s tracker (Jaz’s Bluesky stats tracker).
How Fast Has Bluesky Grown?
In Bluesky’s 2025 Transparency Report, “users” includes accounts on Bluesky’s own servers and on the thousands of Personal Data Servers (servers that host user accounts) across the AT Protocol network. Most of those servers are run independently by third parties.
3. Bluesky grew nearly 60% in 2025, from 25.94 million to 41.41 million users (Bluesky, 2025 Transparency Report).
4. Bluesky grew from 2.89 million to 25.94 million users during 2024 (Bluesky, 2024 Moderation Report).
5. Bluesky had over 43 million global users in March 2026 (Bluesky, Series B announcement). That was up from 13 million in October 2024.
6. More than 2 million people joined the network in the four months before July 10, 2026, Bluesky said (Bluesky, CEO announcement, July 2026). Nearly 200 new apps launched on the AT Protocol in the same period.
Bluesky User Milestones
Bluesky announced these milestones on its own account and blog.
7. Bluesky passed 1 million users on September 12, 2023 (Bluesky, “Reaching 1 Million Users”). At the time, it had invited 1 million users through its waitlist.
8. Bluesky passed 4 million people on the network a day after opening access to everyone in February 2024 (Bluesky on Bluesky, Feb 7, 2024). Over 800,000 new users signed up, averaging 8.5 new accounts per second.
9. More than 2.6 million users joined Bluesky in the few days before September 4, 2024 (Bluesky, “Welcome to Bluesky!”). Over 85% of them were Brazilian.
10. Bluesky reached 10 million users by September 15, 2024 (Bluesky on Bluesky, Sept 15, 2024).
11. 1 million people joined Bluesky in a single day in November 2024 (Bluesky on Bluesky, Nov 15, 2024).
12. Bluesky reached 20 million users by November 19, 2024 (Bluesky on Bluesky, Nov 19, 2024).
13. Bluesky reached 30 million users in late January 2025 (Bluesky on Bluesky, Jan 29, 2025).
14. Bluesky reached 40 million users on October 31, 2025 (Bluesky on Bluesky, Oct 31, 2025).
Bluesky user milestones at each Bluesky announcement
Source: Bluesky’s announcements on its blog and @bsky.app account (Sep 2023, Feb 2024, Sep 2024, Nov 2024, Jan 2025, Oct 2025, Jun 2026)
How Many People Actively Use Bluesky?
Active users are people who actually open the app, not everyone who has an account.
15. Bluesky’s mobile app had 10.4 million monthly active users worldwide in June 2026 (Similarweb via TechCrunch, Aug 2026). That was down 27.2% year-over-year.
In Similarweb’s data, “daily active users” means the number of unique users who opened an app on a given day.
16. Bluesky had around 3 million mobile daily active users in July 2026 (Similarweb via TechCrunch, Aug 2026). That was down 25.6% year-over-year.
In Similarweb’s data as reported by TechCrunch, “stickiness rate” means the ratio of daily to monthly active users.
17. Bluesky’s app stickiness rate was roughly 29% in June 2026 (Similarweb via TechCrunch, Aug 2026). That was about the same as Threads.
Is Bluesky Use Declining?
18. Bluesky’s average monthly app users fell around 52% from Q4 2024 to Q2 2026 (Similarweb via TechCrunch, Aug 2026). The quarterly average dropped from around 22.1 million to 10.7 million monthly active users.
Jaz’s tracker also counts how many accounts like or post on Bluesky each day. It excludes large bot accounts from these statistics.
19. 974,796 unique Bluesky accounts liked posts on September 25, 2026 (Jaz’s Bluesky stats tracker).
20. 571,860 unique Bluesky accounts posted on September 25, 2026 (Jaz’s Bluesky stats tracker).
21. 2.79 million unique Bluesky accounts liked posts on November 18, 2024 (Jaz’s Bluesky stats tracker).
Unique Bluesky accounts that liked posts each day
Source: Jaz’s Bluesky stats tracker, data as of September 26, 2026. Gaps are days with near-zero or abnormally low values in the tracker data.
How Does Bluesky Compare With X and Threads?
22. 4% of US adults say they ever use Bluesky, versus 8% for Threads and 21% for X, in 2025 (Pew Research Center, Americans’ Social Media Use 2025). Pew surveyed 5,022 US adults from February 5 to June 18, 2025.
Share of US adults who say they ever use each platform
Source: Pew Research Center, Americans’ Social Media Use 2025
Similarweb’s data puts X and Threads far ahead of Bluesky in app users.
23. X had 123.7 million mobile daily active users in July 2026 (Similarweb via TechCrunch, Aug 2026). The figure dropped 7% in July.
24. Threads had 147 million daily active users in July 2026, up 21.3% year-over-year (Similarweb via TechCrunch, Aug 2026).
25. X had around 302 million monthly active users on its app as of June 2026 (Similarweb via TechCrunch, Aug 2026).
How Many People Get News on Bluesky?
26. 2% of US adults say they regularly get news on Bluesky, as of August 2025 (Pew Research Center, Social Media and News Fact Sheet). The share is 3% for Threads.
27. 38% of US Bluesky users say they regularly get news on the site, as of August 2025 (Pew Research Center, Social Media and News Fact Sheet). Only people who said they use Bluesky were asked.
28. Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon each had a global news reach of 2% or less in 2025 (Reuters Institute, Digital News Report 2025).
Who Uses Bluesky?
29. 6% of US adults ages 18 to 29 say they ever use Bluesky, as of 2025 (Pew Research Center, Social Media Fact Sheet). The share is 2% among those 65 and older.
| Group | % of US adults who say they ever use Bluesky, 2025 |
|---|---|
| Ages 18-29 | 6% |
| Ages 30-49 | 5% |
| Ages 50-64 | 3% |
| Ages 65+ | 2% |
| Men | 4% |
| Women | 3% |
| High school or less | 2% |
| Some college | 4% |
| College graduate | 6% |
| Household income less than $30,000 | 2% |
| Household income $30,000-$69,999 | 4% |
| Household income $70,000-$99,999 | 3% |
| Household income $100,000+ | 5% |
| Urban | 4% |
| Suburban | 5% |
| Rural | 2% |
Source: Pew Research Center, Social Media Fact Sheet. Survey of US adults conducted February 5 to June 18, 2025.
30. 46.69% of bsky.app desktop traffic came from the United States in August 2026 (Similarweb, bsky.app overview). The United Kingdom followed with 11.26%, then Japan with 5.15%.
31. 63.63% of bsky.app’s website audience is male, according to Similarweb’s August 2026 data (Similarweb, bsky.app overview). Women make up 36.37%.
32. 2.7 million UK online adults, or 6%, visited Bluesky in May 2025 (Ofcom, Online Nation 2025). The figure comes from Ipsos iris audience measurement of adults 18 and older.
How Much Is Posted on Bluesky?
In Jaz’s Bluesky stats tracker, “Total Posts” covers all posts in Jaz’s Bluesky index. Collection started in May 2023.
33. 3.25 billion posts were counted in Jaz’s Bluesky index as of September 26, 2026 (Jaz’s Bluesky stats tracker).
34. 17.98 billion likes were counted in Jaz’s Bluesky index as of September 26, 2026 (Jaz’s Bluesky stats tracker).
35. Users created 1.41 billion posts on Bluesky in 2025 (Bluesky, 2025 Transparency Report). That was 61% of all posts ever made on Bluesky.
36. 2.5 million videos were posted on Bluesky in November 2024 (Bluesky, 2024 Moderation Report). The count does not include GIFs posted through Tenor.
How Many Bluesky Accounts Are Verified?
37. Bluesky had verified 4,327 accounts by the end of 2025 (Bluesky, 2025 Transparency Report). The total includes accounts verified by its network of 21 Trusted Verifiers.
38. Over 309,000 Bluesky accounts use a domain handle to link their username to their website (Bluesky, 2025 Transparency Report).
How Many Times Has Bluesky Been Downloaded?
39. Bluesky had more than 20 million downloads from the App Store and Google Play by April 2025 (Appfigures, “Is Bluesky Still Cool?”). The count covers the period since it opened to the public in February 2024.
40. Bluesky’s US iOS downloads reached 29,000 from January 7 to 14, 2026 (Appfigures via TechCrunch, Jan 2026). That was 49% more than around 19,500 from December 30 to January 6.
How Much Funding Has Bluesky Raised?
41. Bluesky raised $100 million in Series B funding in April 2025 (Bluesky, Series B announcement). Bain Capital Crypto led the round, which Bluesky announced in March 2026.
42. Bluesky announced $15 million in Series A financing in October 2024 (Bluesky, Series A announcement). Blockchain Capital led the round.
43. Bluesky announced $8 million in seed funding in July 2023, led by Neo (Bluesky, 2023 business plan post).
How Big Is the AT Protocol Ecosystem?
The AT Protocol is the open technology Bluesky is built on. Other apps can use it too. Personal data servers are the servers that host user accounts on the network.
In Bluesky’s words, the “Atmosphere” is the ecosystem of builders, apps and users on the AT Protocol.
44. Over a thousand apps built on the AT Protocol are used every week, Bluesky said in March 2026 (Bluesky, Series B announcement). Bluesky also sees over 400,000 SDK (developer toolkit) downloads every month.
45. The Atmosphere held about 20 billion public records as of March 2026 (Bluesky, Series B announcement). Records include posts, likes, comments and other interactions.
46. Bluesky had over 50,000 custom feeds as of October 2024 (Bluesky, Series A announcement).
47. Over 1,000 personal data servers existed outside of Bluesky as of October 2024 (Bluesky, Series A announcement).
How Many Reports Does Bluesky Receive?
48. Users submitted 9.97 million reports to Bluesky in 2025, up 54% from 6.48 million in 2024 (Bluesky, 2025 Transparency Report). The reports came from 1.24 million users, approximately 3% of its user base.
In Bluesky’s moderation reports, “labels” include individual post labels and account-level labels.
49. Bluesky applied 16.49 million labels to accounts and content in 2025 (Bluesky, 2025 Transparency Report). That was a 200% increase from 5.5 million labels in 2024.
50. Bluesky’s moderation team had roughly 100 moderators as of January 2025 (Bluesky, 2024 Moderation Report). The team is staffed 24/7.
Conclusion
Bluesky keeps adding accounts, but fewer people use its app than at its earlier high. It is still much smaller than X and Threads. The data also shows a growing set of other apps built on the same open technology. We’ll update this page as new data comes out.