AOC Becomes First Bluesky User To Hit 1M Followers

The Hill reports:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is the first person to hit a million followers on the social platform Bluesky, according to the platform.

Other than Bluesky’s own account, Ocasio-Cortez’s follower landmark is a first for a user, the platform told The Hill on Monday. Democrats and those on the American left have migrated to Bluesky from the similar social platform X, owned by Trump supporter and tech billionaire Elon Musk, en masse in recent weeks.

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber said on Nov. 19 that over the week before that, around 1 million people had made accounts each day.

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People are leaving Twitter because it’s not fun anymore and no one is obligated to be on a platform they don’t enjoy.

It’s not rocket science.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@aoc.bsky.social) December 2, 2024 at 12:03 AM

And ironically the articles chastising people to stay on Twitter won’t even circulate on there or Meta because they both suppress links to journalism! 😂

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@aoc.bsky.social) December 2, 2024 at 12:09 AM