The IT Nerd

In the wake of the US Election results, it seems that there is another wave of people fleeing Twitter for Bluesky. This time around it seems that Bluesky has gained 700,000 users in the week since the election:

Bluesky gained more than 700,000 new users in the last week and now has more than 14.5 million users total, Bluesky COO Rose Wang confirmed to The Verge. The “majority” of the new users on the decentralized social network are from the US, Wang says. The app is currently the number two free social networking app in the US App Store, only trailing Meta’s Threads.

I can confirm that as of last night, Bluesky and a number of other competitors to Twitter are solidly in the top 10 of Apple’s App Store:

As you can see, Threads is third, Bluesky is fifth, and the troubled TikTok is 7th. So where’s Twitter? Here it is:

It’s all the way down in 55th place. Sucks to be you Elon. Because this is the reason why people are fleeing your dumpster fire of a platform:

The independent platform has seen a lot of growth in recent weeks — on October 24th, Bluesky announced it had 13 million users. After X’s recent announcement that it would let blocked users still see posts from the person that blocked them, for example, Bluesky said it added 500,000 new users in one day.

The results of the US presidential election could be part of Bluesky’s new influx of users. People may be looking to use a platform that’s not owned by Musk or, like some Taylor Swift fans, may be looking for a new platform following an increase in hate speech on X.

I guess that Elon doesn’t care that Twitter is imploding under his leadership, or he’s too focused on turning it into a hate filled right wing bro club. Either way, people are dumping Twitter, and if you haven’t done so, you perhaps should.

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