Bluesky user count booming after Elon Musk teams up with Trump what is it? | Tech News [Video]

Social media platform Bluesky is soaring in popularity as people abandon Elon Musk’s X in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s election victory.

There have been concerns about the spread of hate speech, bots and weak moderation since Elon Musk took over Twitter and rebranded it as X.

But that accelerated amid the billionaire’s support for Donald Trump’s victorious election campaign, landing the world’s richest man the job of leading the incoming president’s new Department of Government Efficiency.

With 9,000,000 people joining rival Bluesky since September – a million of them in the last week – it seems a wave of users searching for an alternative has been unleashed.

Bluesky spokesperson Emily Liu said: ‘We’re excited to welcome all of these new people, ranging from Swifties to wrestlers to city planners.’

Appearance-wise, Bluesky is very similar to X, with a direct messaging function recently introduced, which is hardly surprising given its origin.

Modelled on Bitcoin, the ‘decentralised’ social media platform …