Ocasio-Cortez first person to hit a million followers on Bluesky

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.

The New York Democrat remarked on the exodus in a Tuesday post on Bluesky, saying that those “leaving” X are doing so “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,” she added.

Twitter’s former CEO, Jack Dorsey, made Bluesky in 2019 to be “a protocol for public conversation.” The platform’s features are based off of Twitter, and they include the ability to message fellow users as well as a discover and feed tab.

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

“We’ve been scaling up. There’s been about a million people joining a day for the past week, and we’ve just been telling people how it works, showing them how it’s different,” Graber said in a CNN interview.

“A lot of people are saying they’re having a lot more fun here. They’re having an experience where they’re making friends online again and talking to people. That is just something that they haven’t experienced in a long time,” she added.

The Hill has reached out to X for further comment.