Key facts
- Bluesky COO Rose Wang told TechCrunch daily posts rose 30% and likes 70% against the prior 30-day averages.
- Clicks on links rose 20% over the same comparison, Wang said.
- Bluesky data traffic ran 200% above usual, reaching up to 35.8 GB/s, per the report.
- The November 4 total of 44 million likes nearly matched Bluesky's all-time record of 45 million, set in November 2024.
- CEO Toni Schneider said the platform was seeing a wave of new people joining and old friends returning.
Bluesky recorded its highest daily number of posts, replies and likes in 2026 on Tuesday, November 3, as results from the US midterm elections came in, the platform's chief executive said.
CEO Toni Schneider posted that the company was seeing a wave of new people joining and old friends coming back, and said posts and likes doubled during the elections.
COO Rose Wang told TechCrunch that usage began to peak between 8 pm and 10 pm PT on November 3, when many election results were rolling in. She said daily posts rose 30% and likes 70% against the previous 30-day averages, while clicks on links rose 20%.
According to open-source data cited by TechCrunch, Bluesky reached 44 million likes, 4.8 million posts and 2 million new follows on November 4. That nearly matched the platform's all-time record of 45 million likes in a single day, set in November 2024.
The report said Bluesky's data traffic ran 200% above usual, reaching up to 35.8 GB/s. TechCrunch described Bluesky's user base as leaning politically left and noted its most concentrated period of user growth came after Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election.