As of Tuesday, Threads was the top rated “free” app on Apple’s App Store. Bluesky was seventh on the list — ahead of Instagram, Facebook and X.

X, formerly Twitter, is no longer the "digital town square" it once promised to be. Following the results of the U.S. presidential election, floods of

Bluesky is riding high after the last week has seen a massive boost in its users as 700,000 join in the wake of the US election.

Threads and Bluesky, rival social networks that look a lot like Elon Musk’s X, have seen an influx of new users since election night in the US as people seek alternatives to Musk’s more right-leaning platform following Donald Trump’s presidential victory.

Hundreds of thousands of people have signed up for a rival social media platform after Elon Musk’s X helped propel Donald Trump to a second term in the White House. In the week since the election, more than 700,

Bluesky, a rival to Elon Musk's online platform X, has tracked a major growth spurt in the wake of the US presidential election outcome. In the past week alone, 700,000 users, mostly from the US, have joined the platform,