Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey launched Bluesky in 2019, but it’s seen a surge in users migrating to the platform since Trump’s presidential election victory. The company says it gained more than 1.5 million users in the past week.

Bluesky, a social media microblogging app reminiscent of rivals X and Threads, has welcomed 1.25 million new users to its platform in the week since the US election. Some of the new users switched to Bluesky to boycott X over billionaire owner Elon Musk’s allegiance to President-elect Donald Trump,

More than 115,000 US users deactivated their X accounts the day after the election, and this figure only includes those who deactivated through the website, excluding mobile app users, CNN reported, citing a report from digital intelligence platform Similarweb.