You can leave your Twitter account in place—and you may want to, if there are particular accounts you want to follow that aren’t on Bluesky. Keeping your account also prevents anyone from taking your username (and maybe pretending to be you). You will need to log into your account periodically so your account isn’t deemed inactive.

The main owner of Bluesky helped create a social media platform that discourages bots and hate speech and lets users curate their feed as they wish.

While other platforms, including Meta's Threads, had been seen as the "heir apparent" to the popular microblog, Bluesky could have a serious advantage.

As of this writing, Bluesky sits atop the Apple App Store’s list of free apps. CNBC reported earlier this week that the rival enrolled at least 1.25 million new users in the days since the presidential election,

After Donald Trump was reelected, interest in Bluesky Social has soared. Here's how the Twitter alternative differs from Elon Musk's X platform.