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Bluesky gained more than 700,000 new users in the last week and now has more than 14.5 million users total, Bluesky COO Rose Wang confirmed to The Verge<\/em>. The \u201cmajority\u201d of the new users on the decentralized social network are from the US, Wang says. The app is currently the number two free social networking app in the US App Store, only trailing Meta\u2019s Threads.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n But the Instagram-bootstrapped Threads, which recently crossed 275 million monthly users<\/a>, is still significantly larger than Bluesky.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The independent platform has seen a lot of growth in recent weeks \u2014 on October 24th, Bluesky announced it had 13 million users<\/a>. After X\u2019s recent announcement that it would let blocked users still see posts from the person that blocked them, for example, Bluesky said it added 500,000 new users in one day<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The results of the US presidential election could be part of Bluesky\u2019s new influx of users. People may be looking to use a platform that\u2019s not owned by Musk or, like some Taylor Swift fans<\/a>, may be looking for a new platform following an increase in hate speech on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n