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Bluesky continues to gain users as an alternative to Elon Musk’s X. The app has now passed an important milestone.
The short message service Bluesky, an alternative to the online platform X, has cracked the 25 million user mark. This is according to the company’s statistics. Around five million users have been added since November 19.
The app has experienced a surge in growth since Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election on November 5. However, this has slowed down. Bluesky is also still significantly smaller than X. The service, which Musk once bought as Twitter, is likely to have hundreds of millions of users. The US tech billionaire does not provide exact figures.
Elon Musk dismantled X’s previous measures against misinformation and conspiracy theories. Critics also accuse X of tolerating hate speech. Several celebrities have left.
Bluesky is designed as a decentralized alternative to X – a platform on which many interconnected online networks can exist. The project was launched in 2019 by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey when he was still head of the short messaging service.
dpa
