There was an explosion in the number of Bluesky users after Trump’s victory – Users switched from X to Bluesky
Elon Musk, who supported Donald Trump, who was elected for his second term in the elections in the USA, received support from a certain segment of society, but attracted great reaction from the rest of the world. Musk faces serious allegations that he used the social media application X in a manipulative manner, both in the elections and on crypto assets.
In light of all these developments, Bluesky, a decentralized social media application developed by Twitter’s former CEO Jack Dorsey, reached a significant number of users after the US elections.
Bluesky, which allows users to control and share their own content, has been filled with X-dodgers amid intense backlash against Elon Musk for siding with Trump in the election.
Bluesky gained millions of new users after Donald Trump was elected US President, with users fleeing the X platform owned by Elon Musk. The social media platform has experienced a huge increase in users amid concerns that a change to its terms of service would complicate legal challenges.
2.5 MILLION NEW USERS IN ONE WEEK
Bluesky gained nearly 2.5 million new users last week, bringing its total number of users to over 16 million. The platform is among many applications aiming to replace Twitter after Musk took over Twitter. “We are seeing record levels of activity across all engagement types – likes, follows, new accounts – and are on track to add 1 million new users in a single day,” Bluesky said. Bluesky said in a statement on Thursday evening that more than 1 million people had signed up for the platform in the last 24 hours, making it one of the busiest days for the company. This also meant that the social network had surpassed the 16 million user mark overall.
FAMOUS NAMES AND ORGANIZATIONS ARE LEAVING X
Many well-known organizations and personalities have announced that they are abandoning X due to their concerns about the content of the X platform and the upcoming terms of service change. These names include the Center for Countering Digital Hate, British news broadcaster The Guardian and former CNN presenter Don Lemon. X has been criticized by misinformation experts for allowing the spread of misinformation about critical battleground states during the election.
On November 6, as news spread that Trump had won the presidency, the However, on the same day, more than 115,000 US web visitors deactivated their X accounts – the highest number since Musk acquired the platform.
BLUESKY AND THREADS COMPARISON
When it was first released, Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads application was shown as a great rival to X, but later it suffered a loss and could not deliver what was expected. Bluesky’s website attracted nearly 1.2 million visitors on November 6, outpacing Meta Platforms’ Threads’ nearly 950,000 visitors. “Bluesky’s growth may be due to the increase of controversial content or technical issues, especially on X,” said Abraham Yousef, senior insights analyst at Sensor Tower.
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