Bluesky may still be the underdog in the race for alternatives to X, but the once Twitter-affiliated service is gaining momentum. The app just passed the 15 million user mark after adding more than a million new users over the last week,

In the wake of the 2024 U.S. presidential election and Elon Musk’s very public alignment with Donald Trump, the Bluesky social media app has seen a surge in new users. Bluesky is a social media platform originally conceived within Twitter, now X ...

More than 700,000 people have joined the social media app Bluesky since last week’s US election, the firm has revealed. The sudden surge in new users, who mostly come from the US, appears to have been prompted by Elon Musk ’s endorsement of president-elect Donald Trump.

Elon Musk has certainly emerged victorious this past week, post-election.However, Musk and his social media platform X are not exactly winning on the mobile app charts. X competitors Bluesky and Threads are surging in popularity on Apple's App Store in the week following 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

Hundreds of thousands of people have signed up for a rival social media platform after Elon Musk’s X helped propel Donald Trump to a second term in the White House. In the week since the election, more than 700,