Social media platform Bluesky added over 700,000 customers in every week, in keeping with a report on Tuesday, as it’s seen as a prime different to the Elon Musk-owned platform X, which many reportedly determined to go away previous to and after the U.S. elections.
This pushed the younger platform’s complete consumer numbers over 14.5 million, Bluesky COO Rose Wang advised the tech-focused web site The Verge.
A majority of the brand new Bluesky customers are from the U.S., Wang was cited as saying.
Bluesky is now the second-most downloaded social media app within the U.S. Appstore, the report mentioned, solely trailing Meta-owned Threads.
The consequence of final week’s U.S. presidential election may have spurred a surge in new customers for Bluesky, with Musk one among President-elect Donald Trump’s largest and highest-profile supporters.
People could be searching for a substitute for platforms owned by Musk or searching for a brand new discussion board as a result of rise in hate speech on X, mentioned the Verge.
Bluesky, initially created as a undertaking inside Twitter in 2019, turned an impartial firm in 2022.
Currently led by Jay Graber, the platform is claimed to have additionally gained 3 million new customers following the short-term suspension of X in Brazil in September.
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