It is not surprising that many large, left-wing social media accounts have recently joined Bluesky-but A new analysis From the Pew Research Center it is trying to quantify this shift.
This comes as an update for Report on Pew’s news influence It was released in November 2024, which did not include Bluesky in his numbers. The exhibition focused on a relatively small group of 500 influences, which have more than 100,000 fans on at least one major platform and regularly publishing current events.
For this Bluesky-Centric update, Pew looked at the same influencers (as opposed to the accounts that may have found a large audience in Bluesky exclusively) and saw that in February/March, 43% of them had an account in Bluesky. Just over half (51%) of these accounts were created after the 2024 presidential election.
There is a large gap between the influences on the right and the left, with 69% of left -wing accounts (those who were explicitly recognized as liberals or democrats and expressed their support for Kamala Harris or Joe Biden before the presidential elections) by jumping in the bluesky, while only 15%.
This movement was not necessarily at the expense of X (formerly twitter). While X Elon Musk’s alliance with President Donald Trump seemed to lead new users to Bluesky, 82% of the influences watched by Pew still had an account on X, only 85% in the summer of 2025.
In other words, even if the left -wing influences sink their toes in blue, most of them (87%) have left X. Pew also says that most influences continue to publish more regularly on X than Bluesky.
However, Bluesky’s activity seems to be getting – the number of influences on Bluesky which actually publish increased from 54% in the first week of January to 66% in the last whole week of March.
