Well, they're still in beta, even notifications weren't working that well up until recently. Plus, being closed off from the non-users might be a marketing thing. A lot of people were hyping it up with invites being seen as very desirable.
Locking read-only viewing to a login wall is something Instagram can get away with due to their network effects, but I don't see Bluesky benefiting from it for that much longer.
Could you quantify that statement?
All the stats I've seen show that Twitter usage is growing.
Happy to be shown different stats, I just hope that you're not causally spreading "trust me bro" facts.
However, even X's revised number of 245 million daily active users would still see X lose millions or around 3.7 percent of daily active users from before Musk's acquisition.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/10/twitter-t...
Matthew Prince posted a graph from Cloudflare’s ranking of the most popular websites in the world showing Twitter has been in decline since the start of 2023, not long after Elon Musk took over the platform.
So according to their own (suspect) numbers they have a slight decline, according to outsiders they have a heavy decline.
What numbers are you looking at?
If they can build a small but healthy community first before opening it up, then maybe it will avoid some of the toxicity that other platforms have. People want to be in exclusive clubs, and maybe they will value their membership more this way, leading to more demand from those who are not yet invited.