Bluesky says I have 2,558 followers. For two years I've treated that number as the verdict on my writing: that many people decided my posts were worth seeing…
Elena Rossini 🌈 (@_elena@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image 📝 #WSocial state of the network - Friday July 10th 📣 for those who are curious about it, considering the enthusiastic endorsement by prestigious European institutions #OpenData allows me to crunch numbers. On day 23 since its beta launch in Brussels, W Social has 11291 accounts: - 469 new users since yesterday - 899 users have published one or more posts - 72 new users posting since yesterday - 92% have never* published a single post *may be related to #WIdentity and its 13-step process
@pantheressy.2248834 • Threads, Say more
0 Followers • 2 Threads. See the latest conversations with @pantheressy.2248834.
As many as 48 million Twitter accounts aren't people, says study
A big chunk of those "likes," "retweets," and "followers" lighting up your Twitter account may not be coming from human hands.
letsmakejewishbabies • Instagram profile
45K Followers, 5,750 Following, 1,922 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from @letsmakejewishbabies
Bluesky feed engagement — image-count analysis
The left chart tiers authors by actual follower count (at analysis time). The right chart tiers authors by median likes per post — a proxy for effective reach. Interesting divergence: under the follower definition, medium-size accounts show no 4-img penalty; under median-engagement, the pattern is different.
interstar (@interstar@artoot.xyz)
1.79K Posts, 226 Following, 190 Followers · Code. Think. Make. Play
skymeetsblue
Discover new people worth following on Bluesky — matched by your interests, not follower counts.
LinkedIn has over 675 Million Members. Want to know what LinkedIn User Number you are? They don't make it easy, but you can do it - here's how: Go to to your profile page, then choose "view… | Chris Fralic | 34 comments
LinkedIn has over 675 Million Members. Want to know what LinkedIn User Number you are? They don't make it easy, but you can do it - here's how: Go to to your profile page, then choose "view source" from your browser, then search for "member:" and you'll see a number appear - that's it. | 34 comments on LinkedIn
'ISIS has young people exactly where it wants them': Inside the terror networks operating on Instagram | LBC
An LBC investigation looking into the networks of Islamist terror accounts on Instagram has discovered at least 125 accounts with a combined follower count of more than 136,000 posting content sympathetic to proscribed groups
we can just do things - underreacted
7 days later and we have some results from the experiment. When we demote popular posts we see: - 8.26% fewer "show less like this" (3340 -> 3064) - 0.24% more posts in For You were liked (242438 -> 243024) - 2.43% more feed loads (438867 -> 449537) Per user and per request metrics:
We appreciate the love ❤️ But limited engagement and few followers on Bsky makes some (not us!) question whether it's worth it Be sure to follow (and share with your ML friends!) if you want to see more updates from ICML!
Marc Lanctot
Wow, awesome! Massive thank you to the comms & PR team @icmlconf.bsky.social 🤩 ✅️ Multiple update posts per day ✅️ Posts with photos!! 📷 ✅️ Great use of hash tags #icml2026 ✅️ Schedule and QR links at the local mall ✅️ Setting the gold standard for academic Bluesky 👍 🙏
LATEST: on #WSocial's website, comment counts for posts by prominent users are incorrectly displayed, showing artificially elevated numbers. @opfuchs.gay came up with an interesting theory for it. "W Social, Fictional Metrics and the Beauty of Open Data": blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-fictional-metrics-an…
W Social, Fictional Metrics and the Beauty of Open Data
blog.elenarossini.comHere is some standard.site docs stats. There may be imperfections in this data but it's interesting nonetheless ~3,820 weekly active authors ~2,200 daily active authors (58% of WAA post any given weekday) 73% day-over-day retention among daily posters Net author growth of ~+200/day
Standard.site - One schema. Every platform.
standard.siteis it normal for the followerCount on a @bsky.app profile to have SUCH a different response from app.bsky.graph.getFollowers?
I updated my census of rotation keys on the atmosphere: rob.leaflet.pub/3mr7vhdonuk2i "In total, I found 15,029 recently-active users (0.299%) who have strong control over their identity. This is an increase of about 10x over my earlier census ...
Rotation Key Census, July 2026
rob.leaflet.pub
