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TechCrunch Daily Crunch

X becomes No. 1 app on U.S. App Store

TechCrunch Daily Crunch

SpokenLayer

Tech News, News, Technology

3.849 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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X becomes No. 1 app on U.S. App Store; Bluesky gets nearly 800K new users; Threads tests the ability to save posts as it continues to compete with X Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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dot com code tech news. Here's your daily crunch coming up X is now the

0:51.7

number one app on the US App Store.

0:54.4

But first, Blue Sky opened to the public yesterday after launching in an invite-only beta last year.

1:00.2

Getting on Blue Sky might not be as exciting as it was when people were selling invites

1:05.1

on eBay for $400 a pop, but there's still a lot of curiosity around the decentralized

1:11.0

open source social app. In the last day Blue Sky has gained almost 800,000 new

1:16.7

users. Now the platform is slated to break 4 million total signups later today, whereas it hit 3 million only last week.

1:25.6

According to publicly available data, Blue Sky's unique user count almost doubled

1:29.8

from Monday to Tuesday.

1:31.0

When the platform opened to the public, Blue Sky's launch

1:34.5

wasn't as smooth as it could have been, though.

1:36.9

Many of the platform's user-generated custom

1:39.2

algorithmic feeds stopped working overnight.

1:42.0

As of now, the app seems to be working smoothly.

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