Elon Musk has definitely emerged victorious this previous week, post-election.
Nevertheless, Musk and his social media platform X usually are not precisely successful on the cellular app charts. X rivals Bluesky and Threads are surging in recognition on Apple’s App Retailer within the week following the election.
Bluesky seems to be the large winner, as many customers have evidently determined to flee Musk’s X — typically pointing to his campaigning for Trump and utilizing X as a marketing campaign instrument as the rationale. Bluesky is now the #1 free app within the App Retailer within the U.S. The X-alternative social media platform has additionally simply surpassed 15 million customers as roughly 100,000 folks have signed up per day because the election.
Threads, which is tightly built-in with Instagram and owned by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, is at the moment in second place on the App Retailer. Musk’s X, previously often known as Twitter, is in a distant twenty seventh place on the charts. A big variety of X customers are clearly on the lookout for a substitute for the Musk-owned platform.
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The App Retailer prime charts rankings as of November 13, 2024.
Credit score: Apple
Musk’s App Retailer curiosity
Whereas Musk may not lose any sleep over this after successful important affect with the incoming Trump administration, App Retailer rankings have been a little bit of an obsession for the proprietor of X.
Musk has steadily boasted about X hitting #1 within the Information class on the U.S. and worldwide App Retailer charts because the election. It must be famous that X would not actually have a lot broad competitors within the Information class, as most apps in that part belong to conventional media retailers publishers just like the New York Occasions or Fox Information.
Except for X and Reddit, most social media platforms categorize their iOS apps within the way more aggressive Social Networking class. A primary place rating in that class interprets to a primary place rating total in your entire App Retailer, as Bluesky at the moment holds each distinctions. (For an additional instance, Meta’s WhatsApp iOS app is in third place within the Social Networking class after which in eighth place among the many prime charts.)
X, nevertheless, holds a primary place rating within the Information class on the App Retailer, which solely interprets to twenty seventh place total.