In the week following the 2024 US election, a significant number of Americans have left X (formerly Twitter), marking the biggest exit from the platform since its acquisition by Tesla boss Elon Musk in 2022. Many of these users were disappointed with Musk’s campaign and support. For President-elect Donald Trump. This sentiment also led to the departure of celebrities such as Jamie Lee Curtis, Elton John, Mia Farrow, Whoopi Goldberg and news anchor John Lennon. british newspaper Guardian also announced its release From X.

The biggest beneficiaries of this mass migration were social media platforms Bluesky and Threads.

Bluesky saw a surge in new users, gaining more than a million followers just a week after the election, spokeswoman Emily Liu told The New York Times.

“We are seeing increased levels of activity across all different forms of participation,” Liu said.

Blue Sky, owned by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, is making its own move at this ripe time for the platform.

‘OUR MEMBERS ARE NOT SITTING NEXT TO THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE’

Bluesky is also reaching out to users about why it is a better option.

“I can guarantee that no Bluesky team member will be sitting with a presidential candidate tonight and giving them direct access to control what you see online.”

For many users who left

“You were getting this awful timeline of far-right, white supremacist, conspiracy theory posts that the vast majority of people don’t want to engage with on a daily basis,” said Shannon C McGregor, an associate professor at the University of North. Carolina’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media told The New York Times.

Other notable names, including Oscar-winning actress Jamie Lee Curtis and news anchor Don Lemon, also announced their departures. Lemon specifically pointed to X’s new terms of service, which went into effect on November 7, as the main reason for his departure.

The updated terms provided that any legal dispute with X would be handled exclusively in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas or state courts in Tarrant County, Texas.

But Americans of all stripes are not leaving. This is an immigration based on political tendency.

TURN LEFT AND MOVE TO BLUESKY

Users who flock to Bluesky tend to be more left-leaning, and many have shared their frustration with the toxic environment they found at X.

Prominent Democrats like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Chasten Buttigieg, husband of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, also joined Bluesky.

But for many Americans, November 6 was the day they decided to quit X. They spoke to NBC news about it.

St. Kawa Wutz, 39, a finance director in St. Louis, decided to leave X the day after the election. After using the platform for eight years, he said that under Musk’s leadership, “this has become a place where I can’t really get what I want anymore.”

“Every time I turned it on, he would throw things at me that put me in a bad mood. I noticed from Tuesday night to Wednesday, I started seeing a lot more anti-woman stuff. And I was like, ‘You know what? That’s the end of me,'” Wutz told NBC.

Wutz, who uses X for local news, politics and entertainment, said many members of his community are now leaving X and going to Bluesky.

Bluesky currently has 14.7 million users; this figure is still far below Threads’ 275 million active users.

The USA, Canada and the UK are behind this growth.

SWIFTELER FOR BLUESKY: FAN CLUBS FLOORING FOR ALTERNATIVES

Fan clubs also participate in these platforms.

Noëlle Polo, a 22-year-old Texan and avid Taylor Swift fan, attended Bluesky on November 6, along with many other fans of pop singer Taylor Swift.

“Swifties has been looking for another app other than Twitter since Elon took over. “It wasn’t a healthy environment,” Polo, who runs Taylor Swift’s public fan account, told NBC.

“X really teaches everyone the importance of who owns the sites we use and rely on to communicate online,” Mir said. “People don’t feel like the right voices are being heard or promoted on the site. In many cases, they don’t feel safe using the site,” said Rory Mir, deputy director of community organizing at the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Educator and bestselling author José Vilson, who continues to post on X, Threads, and Bluesky, shared his thoughts on leaving a platform he once found essential.

“From a human perspective, it’s hard to let go of a technology that has been so beneficial to my development. I’ll probably post less, but if you don’t, I won’t delete the account. You’ll be in big trouble.”

So the escape from X, echoed by right-wing rhetoric, benefits Threads and Bluesky, which are now alternatives to X escapees.