The heat of the U.S. election has dissipated, users are leaving X and flocking to Bluesky
ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi Data, the number of users on the American social media platform Bluesky has surged as users flee X following Trump's election as the next President of the United States. The upcoming changes to the terms of service may complicate the legal challenges facing this platform. Bluesky announced on Thursday that it gained approximately 2.5 million new users in the past week, bringing the total number of users to over 16 million.According to data from the analytics company SimilarWeb, after the news of Trump's presidential election victory broke, X saw 46.5 million visits in the U.S. on November 6, which is more than any other day in the past year and 38% higher than the daily visits in recent months.However, over 115,000 American users have deactivated their X accounts, the highest number since Musk acquired the platform. Meanwhile, Bluesky attracted about 1.2 million visitors on November 6, surpassing Meta's platform Threads, which had 950,000.