Bluesky, a social media platform founded by Twitter co-creator Jack Dorsey, experienced outages on Thursday after gaining two million new users in a single day.
The surge followed Donald Trump’s appointment of X owner Elon Musk as co-head of the Department of Government Efficiency.
Developers acknowledged technical challenges, temporarily putting the site in read-only mode.
Bluesky’s active users have doubled since November 6, when Vice President Kamala Harris conceded the election to Trump.
The platform’s app now tops the iPhone App Store X, which has seen record user deactivations.
Bluesky, with its liberal-leaning user base, has become a haven for former X users opposed to Musk’s support of Trump, joining alternatives like Meta’s Threads.