In the next wave, Bluesky gained more than 700,000 new users after the US presidential election, the majority of which were from the United States. The head of operations of the short message service told this to the US portal The Verge confirmsJust a few days ago the figure of 14 million accounts was broken; Currently it is already more than 14.5 million. The latest wave of entries has ensured that the Bluesky app has become the second most popular social network application in the App Store, ahead of only Threads.
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according to bloomberg The Twitter alternative to Meta is currently seeing noticeable growth again, also driven by Donald Trump’s election victory. Elon Musk, who has owned X (formerly Twitter) for two years, has recently campaigned intensively for Republicans and is now one of their closest advisers. For many users, this goes too far, and in some cases replaces entire network platforms – including Taylor Swift fans. As reported by WiredHowever, at the same time, there has also been a huge dissatisfaction with threads since the US election: posts that are hours or days old often appear in the algorithmic timeline. On election night, this led to some major disappointments.
For Bluesky, the latest increase isn’t the biggest in recent weeks; In mid-October, more than 500,000 accounts had been set up in just one day. Previously, more than one million users in Brazil switched from X to BlueSky in just a few days. What is new is the concentration on the United States, X’s main market. We are now helping with massive transfers thousands of so-called starter packsWhich are user-generated collections of accounts that you can follow with one click. also for Heise Median employee accounts Such is a starter pack.
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X: The next wave of migration in Bluesky has again increased significantly since the US election
I have now also created a #StarterPack with @heise.de, @ct.de, @ixmagazin.bsky.social, @technologyreview.de and other collaborators: go.bsky.app/XSsqSu
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