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8. There was a large surge post-election.

Note the date on the post (Kentuck pointed it out, below)

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/19/g-s1-34898/bluesky-traffic-surge-after-election

Traffic on Bluesky, an X competitor, is up 500% since the election. How will it handle the surge?

November 19, 2024 5:13 PM ET
Bobby Allyn

The day after the presidential election, the social media landscape shook.

On Elon Musk's X, more than 115,000 users deactivated their accounts, the largest-ever mass exit from the platform. At the same time, traffic on Bluesky, a smaller rival to X, began to soar, with daily usage climbing some 500% in the U.S., according to data from Similarweb.

"We've been growing by about a million users a day for several days," said Bluesky CEO Jay Graber in an interview with NPR on Monday. "It's proving out the model that we thought would be the right approach to social [media]: Give people the tools to control their experience and they'll have a better time."

Putting more control in the hands of users is what distinguishes Bluesky from X, formerly Twitter, and other rival social media sites.

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Emphasis added.