Published on: 2025-06-05 06:01:57
It’s no surprise that many big, left-leaning social media accounts have recently joined Bluesky — but a new analysis from the Pew Research Center attempts to quantify that shift. This comes as an update to Pew’s news influencer report released in November 2024, which did not include Bluesky in its numbers. The report focused on a relatively small group of 500 influencers, all of whom have more than 100,000 followers on at least one major platform and post regularly about current events. For th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 05:28:02
Bluesky is ramping up its verification program, even though it's still not exactly clear how it plans to determine which accounts are "authentic and notable" enough for a blue checkmark. One month after the company said it would start giving checkmarks to select accounts, the company is now allowing people to apply for verification . Currently, the application consists of a multi-page Google Form that asks users to share details about their account and why they want to be verified. However, it'
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 09:28:56
Bluesky on Thursday quietly opened the doors to those who want to become verified on its social networking service. In a post published by the Bluesky Safety account, the company announced that “notable and authentic” accounts can now apply for verification through a new online form. Plus, organizations can request to become a Trusted Verifier to receive access to the tools that allow them to verify others. Bluesky began testing this feature last month with a small handful of organizations, inc
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 01:39:58
Surf, the new app from Flipboard for browsing the open social web, is making it easier for people to create and discover their own custom feeds focused on their interests. Instead of getting stuck in an algorithmically generated timeline designed by a social network’s owner, custom feeds allow you to build an experience focused on things you actually care about, like your favorite hobbies, sports, communities, or any other topics you want to follow. With Thursday’s introduction of Starter Sets,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 01:44:43
Bluesky doesn't have its own live streaming capabilities, but the service testing out a new feature to boost users' streams off the platform. The company is allowing "select" accounts to link their Twitch or YouTube accounts to their profiles, which will display a red indicator and "live" badge when they're actively streaming. In an update, Bluesky described the feature as an "early test" that will initially only be available to a "handful of accounts" before it's ready for a wider launch. "Blu
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 05:52:18
is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. Bluesky is making it easier to know when an NBA game is happening with a new test that adds a red border to the NBA’s profile picture, along with a “live” callout below it. When you click the profile picture, you’ll be taken out of Bluesky and to whatever live event the organization is promoting, Bluesky COO Rose Wang announced yesterday. “We aren’t trapp
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 13:44:53
As the playoffs rage on, Bluesky announced that it is beta testing a new feature during the NBA playoffs. While an NBA game is in progress, a red border with a “live” designation will appear around posts from the NBA’s account. When users click on the NBA’s profile picture, they will be redirected to the event they’re promoting, even if that means sending users away from Bluesky. “We aren’t trapping you in Bluesky,” wrote Rose Wang, COO of Bluesky, in a post on Sunday. “We want you to use Blue
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-24 05:49:42
Vox Media has sold video game specialist website Polygon to Internet brand aggregator Valnet, the publisher of content-churning sites including Game Rant, OpenCritic, Android Police, and Comic Book Resources. The move comes alongside significant layoffs for veteran journalists at the 13-year-old outlet, including co-founder and editor-in-chief Chris Plante and Senior Writer Michael McWhertor. The sudden job cuts appear to have been completely unexpected for those affected. Polygon Senior Report
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-29 03:27:51
On Tuesday morning, the social media platform Bluesky experienced back-to-back outages that prevented feeds from loading for many users around the world. An initial outage started at about 6AM ET, as tracked by Downdetector, lasting about 40 minutes, and then things crashed again at about 8AM. Bluesky experienced another major outage on April 24th that lasted for around an hour, which the company attributed to PDS networking problems. Many of us here at The Verge were unable to refresh our Blu
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-03 05:01:48
is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Bluesky experienced a major outage on Thursday evening that lasted around an hour. On my desktop browser, my Bluesky feed wouldn’t load at all, just showing a spinning loading circle. I saw something similar with the mobile app; I could log in, but when I did, the feed didn’t show. Other Verge colleagues were also experiencing issues. Now, though, it looks like things have fu
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-03 09:14:32
is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Bluesky is currently experiencing a major outage. On my desktop browser, my Bluesky feed won’t load at all — it just shows a spinning loading circle. I’m seeing something similar with the mobile app; I can log in, but when I do, the feed doesn’t low. Other Verge colleagues are also experiencing issues. In a 6:55PM ET message on its status page, Bluesky says that that there a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-06 05:56:36
Government censorship has found its way to Bluesky, but there’s currently a loophole thanks to how the social network is structured. Earlier this month, Bluesky restricted access to 72 accounts in Turkey at the request of Turkish governmental authorities, according to a recent report by the Freedom of Expression Association. As a result, people in Turkey can no longer see these accounts, and their reach is limited. The report indicates that 59 Bluesky accounts were blocked on the grounds of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-07 01:05:00
Months after first testing ads in select markets, including the U.S., Meta on Wednesday announced that its Instagram Threads app would now expand ads to all advertisers worldwide. The expansion will allow eligible advertisers to reach Threads’ over 320 million monthly active users, and it will include access to an inventory filter to control the sensitivity level of content next to which the ads run. The company says that the new ad placement within the Threads feed will be switched on by defau
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-08 16:35:15
Bluesky, the burgeoning social media site has introduced a new verification system with two ways to get verified. And the company is reviving the Twitter-style blue checkmark. Bluesky will "proactively verify authentic and notable accounts and display a blue check next to their names," the company said in a blog post Monday. This is how Twitter used to handle verifications before Elon Musk bought that site, renamed it X, and allowed users to buy checkmarks. So, if you've been yearning for Twit
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-08 21:00:06
Bluesky’s launch of a verification system has raised a slew of questions among its user base, from who will be picked — and why — to what outside organizations might be involved and whether the self-verification process will end. TechCrunch has some answers. After a leak last week, Bluesky officially announced Monday the arrival of its verification system, which is designed to ensure that notable people are who they say they are on the social network. While similar in some respects to the syste
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-10 06:20:38
After that whole tariff tango, Nintendo is readying its North American pre-order system for the Switch 2. The original Switch 2 price will remain the same, $450, as will the original $500 for the Nintendo Switch 2 + Mario Kart World bundle. However, some Switch 2 accessories will receive price adjustments due to “market conditions.” (As a non-North American, I may have splurged on the Piranha Plant Switch 2 camera — I have no regrets.) Take a picture. It'll last longer. (Hori) There are some
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-10 07:16:51
Trust is everything. Social media has connected us in powerful ways, but it hasn’t always given us the tools to know who we’re interacting with or why we should trust them. In 2023, we launched our first layer of verification: letting individuals and organizations set their domain as their username. Since then, over 270,000 accounts have linked their Bluesky username to their website. Domain handles continue to be an important part of verification on Bluesky. At the same time, we've heard from
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-11 03:16:51
Trust is everything. Social media has connected us in powerful ways, but it hasn’t always given us the tools to know who we’re interacting with or why we should trust them. In 2023, we launched our first layer of verification: letting individuals and organizations set their domain as their username. Since then, over 270,000 accounts have linked their Bluesky username to their website. Domain handles continue to be an important part of verification on Bluesky. At the same time, we've heard from
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-11 05:30:24
Bluesky has long resisted creating a checkmark verification system to combat impersonation and fraud. But that all changed Monday when the social media company officially announced it was rolling out verification for high-profile organizations and celebrities. “Trust is everything. Social media has connected us in powerful ways, but it hasn’t always given us the tools to know who we’re interacting with or why we should trust them,” the company said in a new blog post. The company went on to ex
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-11 09:32:04
Bluesky is adopting an official verification system after all. In an update , the company said it plans to grant blue checkmarks to “authentic and notable” accounts. It will also allow some “trusted organizations" to verify users as well. The change is a notable shift for the upstart platform, which previously resisted the idea of centralized verification. Up to now, the company has relied on a domain-based verification system, which allows users to change their handles to match domains that th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-11 08:00:00
Starting today, Bluesky is rolling out a new verification system, complete with the familiar blue check marks popularized by Twitter. The social platform, which has experienced rapid growth since it opened to the public in early 2024, formerly relied on an unconventional self-verification system where users could “authenticate” themselves by including custom domains in their web handles. Now it’s adopting a more proactive and traditional verification strategy, with the Bluesky team identifying
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-11 09:46:28
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Bluesky is rolling out blue checks of its own for “authentic and notable accounts,” the platform announced on Monday. For now, the decentralized network says it will “proactively verify” these accounts, granting them a checkmark in a blue circle next to their account name. Bluesky is also giving some organizations “Trusted Verifier” status, allowin
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-11 13:37:04
Bluesky announced on Monday that it is rolling out blue check verification, confirming previous rumors that this feature was on its way to the platform. Like Twitter’s original blue check (RIP), Bluesky’s blue check will verify that notable accounts are legitimate, making it easy for users to trust that an account’s posts are real. In its earliest phase, Bluesky will work with a select few “Trusted Verifiers,” which are independent organizations that can verify accounts as members of their tea
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-12 21:15:59
Bluesky may soon get a new blue checkmark verification system, according to changes to the app’s public GitHub repository spotted Friday by reverse engineer alice.mosphere.at. The blue checks may have a similar look to the system pioneered by Twitter, now X, but Bluesky’s version seems like it will work quite differently. Bluesky’s blue check system may rely on multiple organizations to distribute blue checks, according to the codebase changes. That suggests Bluesky will actively verify notabl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-18 05:00:00
Graze, a startup that lets people build and monetize custom feeds for Bluesky’s social network, has attracted new capital. Pre-seed investors, led by Betaworks and Salesforce Ventures, have invested $1 million in the company’s small team, which is working to give users control over their algorithms and social media experiences. Graze’s software, available via the web, offers tools to build, customize, publish, and manage Bluesky feeds. Unlike on other social networks like X or Meta’s Threads, w
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-23 23:01:06
Adobe’s foray into the Twitter alternative Bluesky quickly backfired. Frustrated by the company’s business practices, users on the platform flooded its posts with backlash, ultimately prompting Adobe to delete all of its content. “Hey, we’re Adobe! We’re here to connect with the artists, designers, and storytellers who bring ideas to life,” read Adobe’s first post which has since been deleted. “What’s fueling your creativity right now?” It was an innocuous enough post that Adobe sent out on Tu
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-26 17:32:55
Is the grass greener on the other side? We’re not sure, but the sky is most certainly bluer. It’s been over two years since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, now X, leading people to set up shop on alternative platforms. Mastodon, Post, Pebble (two of which have already shuttered operations) and Spill have been presented as potential replacements, but few aside from Meta’s Threads have achieved the speed of growth Bluesky has reached. As of February 2025, Bluesky has surpassed 30 million users. Its
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-26 21:45:42
Social network Bluesky is rolling out a new version of its software, which adopts some of the features former X users have missed. Nope, it’s not an edit button! Instead, the open social network is adding support for chat reactions in its direct messages feature and is revamping its search page as “Explore,” directing users to trends, suggested accounts, Starter Packs, and more. The features both take inspiration from X, which has let users react to direct messages with an emoji since 2020. X e
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-28 20:17:50
It seems the only thing Bluesky hates more than Donald Trump is brands that promote artificial intelligence — and Adobe, the makers of Photoshop and Acrobat, had to find that out the hard way. Earlier this week, the Photoshop and Acrobat-maker posted an innocuous-enough introduction on its new account in an effort, like other brands have made, to find a new place to shill its AI-infused tech that doesn't explicitly promote Nazis. "Hey, we're Adobe!" the since-deleted post read. "We're here to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-31 02:00:00
Amy Brown was not screaming. She was not crying. She was not throwing up. But on Bluesky she said that she was doing all three, simultaneously. Brown’s husband visited a Walgreens while he was on a business trip in Ohio in February. He told her the prices were cheaper than in California, where they live. The price disparity led her to post that she was screaming, crying, and throwing up. Several Bluesky users responded to tell her she was exaggerating, and that nobody could possibly care that
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