What is trending on Bluesky right now
- 1Trending nowHalloween trick-or-treating traditions
People share memories, events, and opinions on trunk-or-treat and handing out candy to kids.
8,761 postsrunning 116.4 hcultureIntrovert Problems and 4 more in the conversation - 2Trending nowMichigan Senate candidates' partners feud
Haley Stevens' fiancé spars online with Mallory McMorrow's husband over backing Mike Rogers.
657 postsrunning 18.9 hpoliticsKevin M. Kruse and 4 more in the conversation - 3Cooling offMidterm elections days away
Polls for key House and Senate races are discussed as people urge everyone to vote.
60,804 postsrunning 715.1 hpoliticsAbdul El-Sayed and 4 more in the conversation - 4Cooling offStreamers host Halloween live streams
Creators on Twitch, YouTube and Altstream go live with special spooky gaming sessions for the holiday.
39,431 postsrunning 881.1 hentertainmentBrian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 and 4 more in the conversation - 5Cooling offOpenAI CEO Sam Altman
Users post about the OpenAI chief executive and his role in the AI industry.
314 postsrunning 19.1 hscience-techJen the Feisty Librarian and 4 more in the conversation - 6Cooling offPatrick Stewart dies
Fans pay tribute to the Star Trek and X-Men actor by sharing his favorite roles, sketches and stories.
201,148 postsrunning 354.7 hentertainmentResJudicata22 and 4 more in the conversation - 7Cooling offNintendo airs Pikmin Day Direct
Nintendo surprise-released a showcase declaring November 1 as Pikmin Day, with Shigeru Miyamoto explaining the date.
106 postsrunning 1.1 hentertainmentStealth40k and 4 more in the conversation - 8Cooling offSam Altman's home RAM comments
The OpenAI CEO said personal computers waste limited DRAM supply that belongs in data centers.
2,206 postsrunning 20.7 hscience-techA.R. Moxon and 4 more in the conversation - 9FadingClaude agent Pentagon network allegation
WIRED: claim that an Accenture contractor's AI agent ran on a secure DOD system for two months
383 postsrunning 44.4 hscience-techDavid Shapiro (L/0) [UNOFFICIAL] and 4 more in the conversation - 10FadingDaylight saving time ends Sunday
Clocks fall back an hour November 1 amid debate over keeping permanent standard hours.
1,402 postsrunning 68.6 hotherThe Associated Press and 4 more in the conversation - 11Cooling offPeltola ballot-stacking allegations
Trump seeks Mary Peltola's prosecution over a second Dan Sullivan in Alaska's Senate race.
18,156 postsrunning 215.6 hpoliticsAdam Kinzinger and 4 more in the conversation - 12Cooling offMusk's record political spending
Elon Musk has spent hundreds of millions backing Republicans, reportedly more than George Soros.
5,121 postsrunning 115.7 hpoliticsBrant Reeves and 4 more in the conversation - 13Cooling offJustice Department warns election officials
Letters sent to all 50 states demand ballot preservation and cite possible criminal penalties.
2,225 postsrunning 67.7 hpoliticsBradley P. Moss and 4 more in the conversation - 14Cooling offTrump cuts US science research
A shared article says White House actions are eroding the system behind major American discoveries.
158 postsrunning 3.9 hpoliticsDavid Ho and 4 more in the conversation - 15Cooling offTrump on accepting midterm results
Trump says he will respect next week's election outcomes only if the elections are honest.
6,469 postsrunning 112.7 hpoliticsNY Times Pitchbot and 4 more in the conversation - 16Cooling offICE observer tire video
Observers who filmed agents in a public parking lot say they were followed, boxed in, and targeted.
2,098 postsrunning 68.6 hpoliticssouthpaw and 4 more in the conversation - 17FadingCanada and EU launch alliance
Mark Carney says Canada seeks to become the bloc's first associate member after Montreal talks.
2,015 postsrunning 68.8 hpoliticsCarl Quintanilla and 4 more in the conversation - 18FadingFinal Fantasy Resonance
Square Enix's new turn-based RPG tops 42,000 Steam players, a single-player series peak.
2,561 postsrunning 142.9 hentertainmentheadfallsoff and 4 more in the conversation - 19FadingTrump's attacks on Abdul El-Sayed
Michigan Senate candidate answers a metal detector jab with a lie detector dare as Democrats rally behind him.
309 postsrunning 18.2 hpoliticsScott Horton and 4 more in the conversation - 20FadingBleach anime series finale
The last episode of Thousand-Year Blood War airs, adapting the end of Tite Kubo's manga.
2,285 postsrunning 116.1 hentertainmentEvangelion Screenshots and 4 more in the conversation - 21FadingRussian drones hit Ukrainian cities
Officials say attacks on Dnipro's train station, Chernihiv and Kremenchuk killed at least 19.
2,157 postsrunning 86.4 hpoliticsBenB 🇺🇦 and 4 more in the conversation - 22FadingObamacare premiums rise again
ACA plans will cost 13 percent more next year, hitting those earning over $64,000 hardest.
247 postsrunning 18.7 hpoliticsMrs. Betty Bowers and 4 more in the conversation - 23FadingTrans voters reluctantly back Democrats
A report says many transgender voters feel betrayed but will still support candidates who fear Republicans more.
2,728 postsrunning 140.4 hpoliticsDanielle Froom 🏳️🌈 and 4 more in the conversation - 24FadingJohn Oliver on Republican far right
Last Week Tonight's main story looks at white nationalists and Nazi sympathizers within the GOP.
2,665 postsrunning 111.4 hpoliticsMark Jacob and 4 more in the conversation - 25FadingIsrael's war in Gaza
Scholars and activists call Israel's military campaign against Palestinians a genocide.
602 postsrunning 30.7 hpoliticsGreenpeace International 🌍 and 4 more in the conversation
Fastest-climbing accounts, last 7 days
ranked out of 3,605,010 tracked accountsRanked on percentage follower growth with a 2,000-follower floor, not on raw followers gained. Ranking on raw gain returns the same handful of very large accounts every week, which answers who is already big rather than who is climbing. Bluesky publishes no growth history at all, so this comes from our own daily snapshots.
- 1AO3 Status
@status.archiveofourown.org · politics
+18.5%
+17K to 111K
- 2adeadmanwalking.bsky.social
@adeadmanwalking.bsky.social · finance
+9%
+1.8K to 21K
- 3Philadelphia 76ers
@sixersnba.bsky.social
+8.2%
+1.1K to 14K
- 4Maddy Thorson
@maddymakesgames.com
+7.4%
+1.2K to 17K
- 5tnycruzr
@tnycruzr.bsky.social
+7%
+1.5K to 22K
- 6Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium
@ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · crypto
+6.9%
+1.4K to 22K
- 7billboard
@billboard.com · news
+6.8%
+1.4K to 23K
- 8darkrvids.bsky.social
@darkrvids.bsky.social
+6.6%
+858 to 14K
- 9Linda
@parklover.bsky.social · travel
+6.6%
+1.3K to 20K
- 10Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️🌈
@skippjon1.bsky.social · politics
+6.5%
+1.8K to 30K
- 11Mark Thompson
@markreckons.bsky.social · politics
+6.4%
+2.8K to 47K
- 12Abdul El-Sayed
@abdulelsayed.bsky.social
+5.7%
+5.1K to 95K
Topics are read live from Bluesky’s public AppView, which needs no login and no API key, and cached for ten minutes so every visitor sees the same board. Snapshot taken 2026-10-31 15:18 UTC.
What this board is, in numbers
As of 2026-10-31 15:18 UTC, Bluesky’s trend service was surfacing 25 topics, 2 of them still marked as actively trending rather than cooling or fading, across 25 topics with a published post count totalling 365,008 posts. That is Bluesky’s own count of posts matched to each topic, not an estimate of ours.
The status label on each topic is Bluesky’s own grading, not ours. A topic marked trending is still accelerating; cooling means it has passed its peak but is still active; fading means the conversation has largely moved on. That distinction is the useful part of this board and almost no trends page publishes it, because almost no network exposes it.
Every other major network charges for this or hides it behind a login. Bluesky serves it from public.api.bsky.app to anyone who asks, which is why this page exists and why it needs no account, no key and no quota to work.
The endpoint is app.bsky.unspecced.getTrends. The “unspecced” prefix is Bluesky’s own: it is public and it is what the official client uses, but its lexicon is provisional and its fields can change. When it does not answer, this page falls back to app.bsky.unspecced.getTrendingTopics and says on the board that the post counts, timings and example accounts are unavailable from that source.
Why the climbing board is ranked on percentages
Bluesky publishes no follower history at all. There is no growth endpoint, no historical count, and nothing in the protocol that lets you ask what an account had a week ago. The climbing board therefore cannot be reproduced from the public API: it is the difference between our own daily snapshots of the accounts in our Bluesky directory.
It is ranked on percentage growth rather than raw followers gained, and that choice changes the answer completely. A ranking by raw gain returns the same handful of accounts with millions of followers every single week, because a 0.5% week on a two-million account beats a 40% week on a five-thousand account by a factor of five. Percentage growth answers the question people are actually asking, which is who is breaking out.
The 2,000-follower floor is there for the opposite failure. Without it the board would be an endless list of accounts that went from 12 followers to 40, which is a real 233% and tells you nothing.
What this board is not
It is not a hashtag ranking. Bluesky’s trend service groups conversations into named topics with a written description, which is closer to a news desk than to a list of tags, and it does not publish a hashtag volume chart for anyone to read.
It is not a global growth leaderboard. The climbing half only sees the Bluesky accounts in our own directory, and it says how many that is on the board. An account we do not track cannot appear on it however fast it is growing.
It carries no history. Both halves are a snapshot: the topics because the endpoint serves only the current set, and the climbing board because it is a seven-day window recomputed each hour. Nothing here charts a topic over time.
Frequently asked questions
Where do these trends come from?
app.bsky.unspecced.getTrends on public.api.bsky.app, Bluesky's own unauthenticated AppView. Verified live on 2 September 2026: it answers HTTP 200 with no API key and no login, and returns each topic's display name, a one-line description, a post count, a status of trending, cooling or stale, a category and five example accounts. This is Bluesky's own trend detection, not our reconstruction of it.
Why is the endpoint called 'unspecced'?
Because Bluesky has not frozen its shape yet. It is the same endpoint the official client uses, and it is public, but the lexicon is explicitly provisional and the fields can change without notice. If it stops answering, this page falls back to app.bsky.unspecced.getTrendingTopics, which is also public but carries no post counts, no status and no example accounts. When that happens the page says so and leaves those columns blank instead of guessing.
How often does it update?
The board is cached for ten minutes. Everyone asking the same question at the same moment should see the same answer, and refreshing a trends page twice a second should not put that load on Bluesky's AppView. The exact snapshot time is printed under the board.
What are the fastest-climbing accounts ranked on?
Percentage follower growth over the last seven days, with a 2,000-follower floor. Not raw followers gained: ranking on raw gain returns the same handful of very large accounts every week, which answers who is already big rather than who is climbing. The floor exists because percentage growth on a 40-follower account is meaningless in the other direction.
Where does the growth data come from? Bluesky does not publish it.
It does not, which is why we snapshot it. Our own engine records follower counts daily across the Bluesky accounts in our directory, and the climbing board is the difference between today's count and the one from seven days ago. Nothing on Bluesky exposes follower history, so this half of the page cannot be reproduced from the public API alone.
Why do the two halves sometimes disagree?
They answer different questions and they can fail separately. Topics are what the whole network is posting about, read live from Bluesky. Climbing accounts are who is gaining followers fastest inside the slice of Bluesky our directory tracks. Either half can be unavailable without the other, and when one is, the page says which and why rather than showing an empty board.
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PlayerSells is not affiliated with Bluesky or Bluesky Social PBC. Trending topics are read live from the AT Protocol’s public AppView and cached for ten minutes; the snapshot time is printed on the board. Follower growth is our own measurement, taken daily across the Bluesky accounts in our directory, because the protocol publishes no growth history.