Wilmington, Delaware - users are seemingly leaving the social media platform in droves after the platform's owner,, gave a helping hand to in his successful re-election bid.
Users on X are leaving the platform for rival Blue Sky after CEO Elon Musk massively helped Donald Trump win the presidential election. © IMAGO / SOPA Images
According to , Bluesky has garnered over 700,000 new users since the election last Tuesday, bringing its total number of worldwide users to 14.5 million.
Social media researcher Axel Bruns attributed the exodus to users seeking "the kind of social media experience that Twitter used to provide, but without all the far-right activism, the misinformation, the hate speech, the bots, and everything else."
Back in 2022, Musk for around $44 billion. He quickly gutted much of the company, including departments that moderate content and bots.
Musk began exclusively using the platform, pushing far-right memes and conspiracy theories. His sweeping changes have caused notable rises in fake accounts, , and abuse on the platform.
By July, Musk endorsed Trump for president and has since been to a super PAC he founded and aggressively promoting the campaign on X.
Now that Trump will be president again, the Republican has called "Secretary of Cost Cutting," as the Tesla CEO has promised he "could cut costs without affecting anybody."
On Monday, New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Bluesky, "Should I tell Twitter I'm here? I don't want to inadvertently cause an influx of all the worst accounts on the internet."
