Bluesky has added 1.5 million users over the past week as former President Donald Trump’s election victory prompted users to flee X, the platform owned by Trump ally Elon Musk.

A collection of X users — in some cases, high-profile accounts including TV anchor Don Lemon and LGBTQ activist Alejandra Caraballo — posted their intentions after the election to switch to Bluesky, a Twitter-esque app launched by Twitter founder Jack ...

As Elon Musk’s social platform becomes swamped with political posts and partisan aggression, Bluesky reported 1 million new members in the week after the election.

In the wake of Trump’s election, Twitter has seen a huge exodus of users and BlueSky has seen a record surge of over a million new sign-ups, in addition to users who

Bluesky raced to the top of Apple’s App Store on Thursday, with new users flocking to the social app as an alternative to X after its owner, Elon Musk, backed Donald Trump for president. On Thursday morning, the top free social networking app on Apple ...

As of this writing, Bluesky sits atop the Apple App Store’s list of free apps. CNBC reported earlier this week that the rival enrolled at least 1.25 million new users in the days since the presidential election,

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey launched Bluesky in 2019, but it’s seen a surge in users migrating to the platform since Trump’s presidential election victory. The company says it gained more than 1.5 million users in the past week.

Bluesky, a social media microblogging app reminiscent of rivals X and Threads, has welcomed 1.25 million new users to its platform in the week since the US election. Some of the new users switched to Bluesky to boycott X over billionaire owner Elon Musk’s allegiance to President-elect Donald Trump,

More than 115,000 US users deactivated their X accounts the day after the election, and this figure only includes those who deactivated through the website, excluding mobile app users, CNN reported, citing a report from digital intelligence platform Similarweb.