After Trump’s election, the social network Bluesky gains one million users in 24 hours

Full box! The American social network Bluesky, claimed as an alternative to

“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 “toxic media platform”

The omnipresence of Elon Musk in the presidential campaign seems to be one of the reasons for this success. 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. The billionaire, owner of

Since his purchase of Twitter, Elon Musk has largely relaxed the platform’s moderation rules, notably authorizing the return of accounts linked to far-right movements on the network.

British daily newspapers The Guardian then Spanish The Vanguard announced during the week that they would no longer publish content on

More than 16 million users

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 is also doing well

Threads, another alternative to X and owned by Meta (parent company of Facebook and Instagram), has also seen 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 on the Meta group network on Thursday.

The network, created in July 2023, claimed 275 million users at the beginning of November.