Hi! I'm the new Head of Communications @bsky.app.
I've been watching the open social web evolve over the past couple of years. Bluesky represents what I believe the future of the internet should look like: built on principles that put people first.
This is one of the curlers on the USA Paralympic curling team and I told him today that he should post about his Paralympic experience on BlueSky because people on BlueSky get very excited whenever anybody doing anything cool in the world posts through it on BlueSky instead of other websites
Personal news update: I'm delighted to announce that as of today, I am an actual Bluesky employee! I'll be working to welcome indie media and local govt to Bsky—and supporting those already here.
I'll always want to hear your thoughts on how we can make Bsky the sort of social media we all want!
search is getting an upgrade soon.
if you could fix or change something thing about it, what would it be?
Demonstration of where the Germ DM button appears on your Bluesky profile after you pair your accounts within the Germ DM app.
we just rolled out an experimental integration with @germnetwork.com, an E2E encrypted chat app that integrates with atproto.
Germ users can add a button to their profile so others can message them from Bluesky.
we're exploring ways to connect your profile with other apps in the Atmosphere.
These books are fun and the event will be good. Also it won't be 13 degrees anymore. Come through if you're around.
Super Bowl feed traffic is bigger than expected! Tossing some fixes in place
Haven't seen a sports-specific starter pack for Washington Post folks affected by recent layoffs so created one below - please show them your support and give a follow (let me know if I've missed anyone too!)
You’re the best Christine. Thanks for everything!
I am absolutely over the moon to welcome @mlsist.bsky.social, @jeffrueter.bsky.social, and @ellabrockway.bsky.social to the Guardian.
www.theguardian.com/guardian-us-...
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might it also be the official app of finance
graph showing bsky user activity during Bears-Rams game - showing spikes during big moments
Tracking Bsky user activity during Bears-Rams: you can really see the exact moment that Caleb made the throw to take it to OT, and then there's another peak but idk what that is let's ignore that one
Appreciated your coverage along the way @kfishbain.bsky.social
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@jimray.net would be proud
Hard to overstate your impact - will sorely miss having your voice in the room 💙
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Highly recommend. Some great insight into the complexities of players' associations and governance during the back half. As Andy says it's unusual that the burden of progress is often put on athletes who find themselves caught between federations and their colleagues..
yeah fairs
Today is Free Friday at Defector! Everything we post on Bluesky all through the weekend will be a gift link. 🎁
U good? No
Graphic announcing Simon Mathews as the Nats new pitching coach, with text stating "Washington Nationals Pitching Coach Simon Matthews" and a photo of Simon.
HUGE FIRST BSKY POST
quick proof they’re doing this
If you think there was a lot of baseball talk last night, that’s because there was A LOT of baseball talk last night
Green line below shows activity during the game, vs. the day before (yellow) and last week (blue). The peaks are 66% higher than normal
We have the juice
hey folks, we've heard reports that some posts and accounts weren't showing up in search.
there was a technical issue on our end that prevented a small number of new posts and accounts from getting indexed.
we're backfilling the missing data now, and search results should return to normal soon.
A seemingly small but very big change - you should 100% be using post notifications as a way to keep updates
also shout out to kenny beats on production who keeps proving a point across genres
