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Bluesky is having a very good week as some users abandon Elon Musk's X after the U.S. presidential election. Elon Musk has certainly emerged victorious this past week, post-election. However, Musk and his social media platform X are not exactly winning on the mobile app charts.

Bluesky added over 1 million new users this past week. The app is positioned as an alternative to Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter. Most new users are from the U.S., Canada, and the UK. The Seattle-based micro-blogging platform now claims a total user base of over 15 million—still far behind X's estimated 318 million.

Elon Musk, billionaire and owner of X, formerly called Twitter, has seen his relationship with Donald Trump grow ever since he used his personal fortune to help get him elected. Since then, he’s become a prominent figure of Trump’s upcoming administration,

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,