For those unfamiliar, here’s a brief history of Bluesky. It originally launched as an invite-only app in 2023 but is now open to everyone. It was also backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, but he left the company’s board this year.

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,