Bluesky Gains Millions Of Users After U.S. Elections

The social media platform Bluesky gained 2.5 million users after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States.

According to Reuters, the measure taken by millions of users has to do with upcoming changes to the terms of services in Elon Musk’s social media platform X and to the entrepreneurs’s support of Trump.

Bluesky—a platform with an interface similar to Twitter, the former version of X—reported 10 million users in September, after Brazil suspended X in the country. Two days ago, the decentralized social media platform reached 15 million users.

“We’re seeing record-high activity levels across all different forms of engagement: likes, follows, new accounts, etc, and we’re on track to add 1 million new users in one day alone,” said Bluesky.

Just a few hours ago, the company confirmed it reached the milestone of gaining 1 million new users within 24 hours on a post on its platform.

it’s official — 1,000,000 people have joined Bluesky in just the last day!!!

welcome and thank you for being here 🥳

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— Bluesky (@bsky.app) November 15, 2024 at 1:53 AM

X hasn’t revealed how many users have left their platform, but many public figures and organizations have revealed their reasons.

“Elon Musk is a pretty destructive force in our society and politics, I want no part of him,” said podcaster Jody Avrigan from the social media platform Threads.

News publications like The Guardian also decided to leave the social media platform. The British newspaper declared to be concerned about “far-right conspiracy theories and racism” in the platform’s content, and that the coverage and the information shared during the U.S. elections confirmed this.

Rose Wang, Bluesky COO, told The Verge that most new users are from the U.S. and that the mobile app reached the first position as the most downloaded app on the iOS app store.