Over 1.25 million new users joined in the last week, with many leaving X due to Musk's support of President-elect Trump.

Bluesky has added 1.5 million users over the past week as former President Donald Trump’s election victory prompted users to flee X, the platform owned by Trump ally Elon Musk.

X users are weighing the decision to keep their followings or build them back up on alternative platforms after the election.

Bluesky has not exactly won the Twitter Wars. By conventional metrics, it has not come close. The platform reports about 14.5 million total users. Meta’s Threads, which it built on the scaffolding of Instagram,

Bluesky has rapidly gained users as people say they're departing Elon Musk's X after the US election. It reported outages on Thursday.

As of this writing, Bluesky sits atop the Apple App Store’s list of free apps. CNBC reported earlier this week that the rival enrolled at least 1.25 million new users in the days since the presidential election,

The report also noted that the “web traffic and daily active users for Bluesky increased dramatically in the week before the election, and then again after election day”. Blue

Bluesky is having a very good week as some users abandon Elon Musk's X after the U.S. presidential election. Elon Musk has certainly emerged victorious this past week, post-election. However, Musk and his social media platform X are not exactly winning on the mobile app charts.