Elon Musk's right-wing X continued to lose users in the week after Trump won the election, with rivals Bluesky and Meta's Threads seeing rapid growth
, while giddily speculating about the extremist agenda he would pursue once in office. The site’s owner, billionaire Trump ally, who had drastically overhauled the platform to amplify far-right misinformation and hate speech, was particularly pleased. He announced in athrough which he committed at least $119 million of his personal wealth to electing Trump would keep working to register more Republican voters in “key districts around the country.
For many who had hoped to see Trump lose, and were already on the fence about leaving X, this victory lap provided as good an occasion as any to finally log off. Many users noted a steady loss of hundreds or even thousands of followers as accounts were deactivated, continuing aand then incorporated as a separate company, announced on Tuesday that in the week since the election it had added.
“Bluesky Social” became a trending topic on Threads on Tuesday as users reacted to the news of its rapid growth. Preferences between the two platforms differ, such that both have lately seen an uptick in discussion about the pros and cons of each. This in itself was another indication that people who once relied on X to stay informed and connected are thinking about their best alternatives in the fragmenting landscape of social media.
Meanwhile, X’s future as it continues to lose liberal and moderate voices, leaving MAGA diehards to revel in a second Trump term, is murky at best. In becoming a political bullhorn for the right, it now more closely resembles Truth Social, the app Trump rolled out in 2022 after he was permanently suspended from Twitter.
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