BlueSky, the social network that gains millions of users due to the exodus of X in rejection of Elon Musk and Donald Trump

La red social BlueSky created as a alternative to (Twitter) is winning millions of new users in the weeks after the US elections for him Exodus of the platform that belongs to Elon Musk.

BlueSky reported this Wednesday that its total users they shot at 15 million compared to the approximately 13 million that it had at the end of October. This Friday, meanwhile, he announced that he won another million users in 24 hours thus surpassing the 16 million in total.

“It’s official, 1,000,000 people have joined BlueSky in just the last day! Welcome and thank you for being here1″, wrote the platform in a message published on BlueSky and X.

BlueSky’s advance comes after Donald Trumppresident-elect, will grant Musk a important role to reform the federal government, leading a newly created department.

Developed by the former CEO of Twitter, Jack DorseyBlueSky has a blue butterfly as a logo that inevitably reminds us of the little blue bird that characterized the current X.

Launched at the end of 2021initially it was a space that could be accessed only by invitation until it was open to the public in February.

That invitation access period gave the site time to develop moderation tools and other features. The platform is very similar to Xwith a feed of “discovery” as well as a feed chronological for accounts that users follow. Users can send direct messages and pin postsas well as find “starter packages” which provide a curated list of people and feeds personalized to follow.

The surge in users after the US election isn’t the first time BlueSky has benefited from people abandoning X. Bluesky gained 2.6 million users in the week after X was banned in Brazil in Augustof which 85% were from the South American nation, according to the company. Some 500,000 new users signed up in the span of a day last month, when blocked accounts they could see a user’s public posts.

Despite Bluesky’s growth, X posted last week that it had “dominated the global conversation about the US elections” and had set new records. The platform registered a 15.5% increase in new user registrations on election day, according to X, with a record of 942 million publications all over the world.

Bluesky has made reference to its competitive relationship with ironic commentsincluding an election day post on X referring to Musk watching the voting results alongside the president-elect Donald Trump.

“I can guarantee that no member of the Bluesky team will be sitting with a presidential candidate tonight and giving you direct access to control what you see on the internet”Bluesky noted.

Through the platform, new users —including journalists, left-wing politicians and celebrities— have posted memes and shared that they wanted to use a space free of ads and hate speech. Some said that It reminded them of the early days of Xwhen it was still Twitter.

On Wednesday, the British newspaper The Guardian announced that will no longer post on Xpointing out that it was due to the “far-right conspiracy theories and racism” on the social network. The Spanish newspaper did the same The Vanguard.

With information from agencies.