Next migration wave at X: Bluesky grew significantly since the US election
X boss Elon Musk has put his account and parts of the network at Donald Trump's service. Since his victory, the competition has seen renewed growth.
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In a next wave, Bluesky has gained more than 700,000 new users since the US presidential elections, the majority of whom are from the US. This was confirmed by the head of operations at the short messaging service to the US portal The Verge. Just a few days ago, the 14 million account mark was broken, and currently there are already over 14.5 million. The latest wave of new users has therefore ensured that the Bluesky app has become the second most popular social network application in the App Store, followed only by Threads.
Growth for Threads too
According to Bloomberg, Meta's Twitter alternative is also currently seeing significant growth again, also spurred on by Donald Trump's election victory. Elon Musk, who has owned X (formerly Twitter) for two years, has recently been campaigning intensively for the Republican and is now one of his closest advisors. This goes too far for many users, with entire networks switching platforms –, including fans of Taylor Swift, as reported by Wired. At the same time, however, there has also been enormous dissatisfaction with threads since the US election: posts that are hours or days old often appear in the algorithmic timeline. On election night, this caused great frustration in some cases.
For Bluesky, the latest growth is not the biggest in recent weeks; in mid-October, more than 500,000 accounts were created in just one day. Before that, more than one million users from Brazil had switched from X to Bluesky within a few days. What is new now is the focus on the USA, X's core market. Thousands of so-called starter packs, user-generated collections of accounts that can be followed with a single click, are now helping with the mass migration. Such starter packs are also available for heise Medien employee accounts.
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