After Trump won the election, a large number of new users "flocked to" the Threads and Bluesky social media platforms.

After Donald Trump won the US presidential election, people began looking for alternatives to Musk's more right-leaning platforms, and since the night of the US election, competitors to Elon Musk's X, such as the social networks Threads and Bluesky, have seen a surge in new users. Bluesky, initially funded by Twitter, gained over 700,000 new users in the past week, with a current total of 14.5 million accounts, up from 10 million in September. However, this growth is not the fastest the site has seen, as it added 1 million new registered users in the three days after X shut down in Brazil. Company spokesperson Emily Liu said that most of Bluesky's new users are from the US, which may attract more attention. Meta's Threads is the top-ranked "free" app in Apple Inc.'s app store. Bluesky ranks seventh in the free app chart, ahead of Instagram, Facebook, and X. Currently, Threads has over 275 million monthly active users, up from 150 million in April. After Trump's victory, both platforms have seen an influx of new users seeking alternatives to X (formerly Twitter). Musk acquired X at the end of 2022 and has been promoting Trump's agenda to his over 200 million followers in recent months, including a virtual victory parade celebrating Trump's election as president. Many users have expressed discomfort with Musk's involvement in the election or have shown disinterest in supporting his services, leading some of them to start migrating. Bluesky's Chief Operating Officer Rose Wang, in an email citing the wrestling community, city planners, and Taylor Swift as examples, wrote that "what's interesting to me is the diversity of community that the users who came to Bluesky last week bring."