The American social network Bluesky, claimed as an alternative option to
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“It’s official – 1,000,000 people have joined Bluesky in the last day! Welcome and thank you for being here,” the platform said in a message posted on both Bluesky and X.
A record number which resonates with the appointment Tuesday of Elon Musk, owner of
The billionaire, head of Tesla and SpaceX, officially supported the Republican candidate in his race for the White House, and also provided funding to his campaign.
Since his purchase of Twitter, Mr. Musk has largely relaxed the platform’s moderation rules, notably authorizing the return of accounts linked to far-right movements on the network.
The British dailies The Guardian and then the Spanish La Vanguardia announced during the week that they would no longer publish content on
Initially created and funded by Twitter itself, when the network was then led by its co-founder Jack Dorsey, Bluesky opened to the general public in February 2023 on Apple’s iOS operating system and at the end of March on Android .
It is now headed by Jay Grabber, general director of the platform.
The network claims 16 million users, strong growth for a platform which had 10 million in mid-September. It had already benefited from a spotlight at the end of 2022 when Elon Musk got his hands on Twitter, which he renamed X.
Threads, another alternative to X and owned by Meta (parent company of Facebook and Instagram), also saw an increase in its users.
“Two huge weeks for Threads. More than 15 million registrations in November alone, and three months with more than a million registrations per day,” Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, published Thursday on the Meta group network.
The network, created in July 2023, claimed 275 million users at the beginning of November.
