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Mariella Moon @ Engadget · 09/04/2024 15:12 EDT

Bluesky added over 2 million Brazilian users after Brazil banned Elon Musk's X

In a post on its own social network, Bluesky has revealed that it has added 2.6 million users over the past few days. That's a lot of growth in such a short time for a platform that only has around 8.8 million users overall. In a blog post, the company said over 85 percent of the new users are Brazilian, which works out well in excess of 2 million. 
If you'll recall, Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes recently ordered the country's internet service providers to block X after the website for

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