After the former president's victory last week, left-leaning social media users reportedly flocked to startups Bluesky and Threads, a rival app to SiteX, owned by Donald Trump-supporting billionaire Elon Musk. .
Bluesky, the decentralized platform founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, has added 700,000 users since last Tuesday, increasing its total account base to 14.5 million. According to Bloomberg News.
Threads, the “Twitter killer” app launched by Facebook's parent company Meta last year, has not disclosed how many users have joined the platform since President Trump easily defeated Vice President Kamala Harris.
But as of Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg's site was the highest-rated “free” app on Apple's App Store. Bluesky ranks seventh on the list of free apps, ahead of Instagram, Facebook, and X.
Threads now has more than 275 million monthly users, up from 150 million in April.
Although Bluesky and Threads are growing in user numbers, they are far behind X, which has 318 million monthly users, according to market intelligence firm Sensor Tower.
The Post has reached out to Bluesky and Threads' parent company Meta for comment.
Musk, who bought Twitter for $44 billion in 2022 and later rebranded the site as “X,” has supported Trump and actively promoted Trump's candidacy during the campaign.
The tycoon has attended several of Trump's rallies and reportedly intends to wield considerable influence during his second term.
Under Musk's ownership, X also reversed its previous management's content moderation and censorship policies that had banned Trump and other right-wing commentators, including the satirical news site Babylon Bee.
