It’s no shock that many huge, left-leaning social media accounts have not too long ago joined Bluesky — however a brand new evaluation from the Pew Research Center makes an attempt to quantify that shift.
This comes as an replace to Pew’s information influencer report launched in November 2024, which didn’t embody Bluesky in its numbers. The report targeted on a comparatively small group of 500 influencers, all of whom have greater than 100,000 followers on no less than one main platform and submit usually about present occasions.
For this Bluesky-centric replace, Pew checked out those self same influencers (versus accounts that will have discovered a giant viewers on Bluesky completely) and noticed that in February/March, 43% of them had an account on Bluesky. Just over half (51%) of these accounts had been created after the 2024 presidential election.
There’s a giant divide between influencers on the fitting and the left, with 69% of the left-leaning accounts (those that explicitly recognized as liberals or Democrats and expressed assist for Kamala Harris or Joe Biden earlier than the presidential election) making the soar to Bluesky, whereas solely 15% of the conservative ones did the identical.
This motion wasn’t essentially on the expense of X (previously Twitter). While X proprietor Elon Musk’s alliance with now-President Donald Trump appeared to drive new customers to Bluesky, 82% of the influencers tracked by Pew nonetheless had an account on X, down solely barely from 85% in summer time 2025.
In different phrases, even when left-leaning influencers are dipping their toes into Bluesky, most of them (87%) haven’t deserted X. Pew additionally says most influencers proceed to submit extra usually on X than on Bluesky.
However, Bluesky exercise does seem like selecting up — the variety of influencers on Bluesky who’re really posting grew from 54% within the first week of January to 66% within the final full week of March.
