Credit: Illustration by Stephen Kelly / Getty Images The social media platform Bluesky has acquired more than one million new users since the US election, said a company spokesperson. This influx of new members, largely from the US and UK, has been put ...

The social network Bluesky has been soaring since the US presidential election. On Tuesday, it was listed at No. 3 on the free app section of the US App Store, above such popular apps as Temu, Google and TikTok.

For better or worse, there are currently two major options for X-pats looking to cultivate a Classic Twitter experience: Threads and Bluesky. If X has become microblogging’s past, one of these two just may be its future—the proverbial marketplace of ideas where posts go viral and people find community,