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Bluesky
Sign in to saveBluesky (abbreviated as Bsky) is an American microblogging social media service. Users can share short posts containing text, images, and videos. It is owned by Bluesky Social PBC, a benefit corporation based in the United States.
Key facts
- Website.name
- Bluesky
- Website.logo
- Bluesky Logo.svg
- Website.logo_size
- 125
- Website.logo_alt
- A simplified silhouette of a butterfly, with two symmetric pairs of wings, colored with a sky-blue gradient
- Website.logo_caption
- Logo since December 2023
- Website.screenshot
- File:Bluesky_profile_of_Wikipedia_(March_2025).png
- Website.screenshot_size
- 275
- Website.screenshot_alt
- Web interface showing a user account on Bluesky. To the left, a list of different modes. In the center, a banner and profile description above a feed with posts and attached media. To the right, a list of user-selected custom feeds and trending topics.
- Website.caption
- Screenshot of the Bluesky desktop interface, featuring the account of the English Wikipedia, March 2025
- Website.type
- Social networking service
- Website.language
- 41 languages
- Website.headquarters
- Seattle, Washington, United States
- Website.area_served
- Worldwide
- Website.owner
- Bluesky Social, PBC
- Website.founder
- Jack Dorsey
- Website.CEO
- Toni Schneider (interim)
- Website.key_people
- Jay Graber, Jeremie Miller, Mike Masnick, Rose Wang, and Kinjal Shah
- Website.employees
- 29 (September 2025)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- distributed social network
- Official name
- Bluesky Social
- Country
- United States
- Founded by
- Jack Dorsey
- Headquarters
- Seattle
- Industry
- social media
- Official website
- bsky.app
- Image
- BlueSky Social.png
- Has use
- microblogging
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- social media followers
- 436050
- service status information URL
- status.bsky.app/history.rss
- web feed URL
- bsky.social/about/rss.xml
- Commons category
- Bluesky Social
- inception
- 2021-00-00
- name in kana
- ブルースカイ
- search formatter URL
- bsky.app/search?q=$1
- hashtag
- Bluesky
- privacy policy URL
- blueskyweb.xyz/support/privacy-policy
- terms of service URL
- bsky.social/about/support/tos
- FAQ URL
- blueskyweb.xyz/faq
- official jobs URL
- blueskyweb.xyz/join
- number of registered users/contributors
- 35691437
- copyright license
- MIT License
- software version identifier
- 1.104.0
- protocol
- AT Protocol
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Encyclopedic overview
23 sectionsContents
- History
- Research initiative
- Incorporation and independence from Twitter
- Invitation-only open beta
- Public launch
- Growth in usership
- During invitation-only open beta
- After public launch
- Post–2024 United States presidential election growth
- Corporate structure
- Software and protocol
- Features
- Reception
- Legal and regulatory issues
- Age verification laws
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Australia
- Blocking in Turkey
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Bluesky (abbreviated as Bsky) is an American microblogging social media service. Users can share short posts containing text, images, and videos. It is owned by Bluesky Social PBC, a benefit corporation based in the United States.
Bluesky was developed as a reference implementation of the AT Protocol, an open communication protocol for distributed social networks. Bluesky Social promotes a composable user experience and algorithmic choice as core features of Bluesky. The platform offers a "marketplace of algorithms" where users can choose or create algorithmic feeds, user-managed moderation and labelling services, and user-made "starter packs" that allow users to quickly follow a large number of related accounts within a community or subculture. The AT Protocol offers a domain-name–based handle system within Bluesky, allowing users to self-verify an account's legitimacy and identity by proving ownership of a domain name.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bluesky” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.