It's perhaps expected that Bluesky might have issues. Amid Musk's high-profile support for President-elect Donald Trump lots of users made an exodus for Bluesky. It skyrocketed to the top of Apple's App Store, adding approximately 100,000 users per day since last week's election.

Over 1.25 million new users joined in the last week, with many leaving X due to Musk's support of President-elect Trump.

Social media app Bluesky has emerged on top of Apple ’s App Store amid a mass exodus from Elon Musk -owned X post the US presidential election. X rival apps Bluesky and Threads have both risen to ranks #1 and #2 on Apple’s App store following Donald Trump ’s victory in the US elections.