Bluesky in particular saw huge growth in November, topping 20 million users, and at the time of this writing is still gaining several users per second.

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The migration to Bluesky, especially after the 2024 U.S. presidential election, reflects a growing dissatisfaction with centralized platforms and their handling of political content.

Bluesky, a social media platform similar to X, gained over 1 million users in the week following the U.S. election as former X users look for alternative online spaces.

While Bluesky's user base is growing quickly, the company remains small in terms of its funding and staff, which Wang describes as "a tiny team of 20" employees, including herself and CEO Jay Graber.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has garnered 1 million followers on Bluesky, and The Hill reported she is the first to do so. By comparison, she has 12.8 million followers on X.

Bluesky competitor X, meanwhile, is feeding users’ posts into sister company xAI to help train its AI chatbot Grok. Last fall, it changed its privacy policy to allow third parties to train their ...