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.

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,

Bluesky claims it welcomed 1 million new users since last week’s election, in what appears to be part of a mass exodus from X, owned by Trump supporter Elon Musk.

More than 700,000 people have joined the social media app Bluesky since last week’s US election, the firm has revealed. The sudden surge in new users, who mostly come from the US, appears to have been prompted by Elon Musk ’s endorsement of president-elect Donald Trump.