According to the platform, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York is the first person to reach 1 million followers on social platform Blue Sky.
Other than Bluesky's own account, the landmark of Ocasio-Cortez's followers is new to users, the platform told The Hill on Monday. Democrats and those on the American left have migrated en masse to Blue Sky in recent weeks from the similar social platform X, owned by Trump supporter and tech billionaire Elon Musk.
New York Democratic Party mentioned the exodus In a Tuesday post on Blue Sky, he said those who “quit” X “because it's not fun anymore and no one owes anyone to be on a platform that isn't fun.”
“It's not rocket science,” she added.
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey called Bluesky a “protocol for public conversation” in 2019. The platform's functionality is based on Twitter and includes the ability to send messages to other users, as well as the Discover and Feed tabs.
Blue Sky CEO Jay Graeber said on November 19th: In the week before that, about 1 million people daily account.
“We've been scaling up. Over the past week, we've had about a million people a day joining us, and we're telling people how it works and how it's different. We just showed,” Graeber said in an interview with CNN.
“Many people say they have more fun here. They are having the experience of making friends online again and talking to people, which is something they haven't had in a long time,” she added. Ta.
The Hill has reached out to X for further comment.
