What is trending on Bluesky right now
- 1Trending nowCaminero and Hicks pop-up mix-up
Junior Caminero and Hicks get tangled up chasing a pop fly in a game against the Brewers.
317 postsrunning 1.2 hsportsCurt Hogg and 4 more in the conversation - 2Trending nowDaniel Garcia on AEW Dynamite
Wrestling fans praise Daniel Garcia's babyface run and in-ring growth during this week's show.
140 postsrunning 3.7 hsportsAEW On TV and 4 more in the conversation - 3Trending nowNYT's Peltola story source
Mary Peltola's fired ex-campaign manager retracted her statements before the Times published.
373 postsrunning 3.8 hpoliticsjamelle and 4 more in the conversation - 4Trending nowTyrese Haliburton strains hamstring
The Indiana Pacers star will miss time while team doctors work out a timeline for his return.
241 postsrunning 7.6 hsportsKeerthika Uthayakumar and 4 more in the conversation - 5Trending nowIsraeli election count remains deadlocked
Benjamin Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot both lack a majority as double envelope ballots are counted.
132 postsrunning 1.8 hpoliticsKhashoggi's Ghost and 4 more in the conversation - 6LiveWorst personal injury stories
Users share their most gruesome accidents, from playground falls to mandoline slicer mishaps.
166 postsrunning 1 hcultureceej and 4 more in the conversation - 7Cooling offSpooky month stream schedules
Creators share weekly lineups of horror games like Little Nightmares, Phasmophobia and Signalis.
34,529 postsrunning 819.8 hentertainmentThe Realest Swerve Strickland and 4 more in the conversation - 8Cooling offLetterboxd Friday recent watches
Film fans share their latest Letterboxd activity, from horror picks to old classics.
5,668 postsrunning 126.7 hentertainmentjamelle and 4 more in the conversation - 9Cooling offValve addresses Steam AI cloning
Valve staff tell developers to make games harder to copy amid Next Fest copycat flood.
841 postsrunning 31.7 hscience-techFreya Holmér and 4 more in the conversation - 10Cooling offHalloween trick-or-treating traditions
People share memories, events, and opinions on trunk-or-treat and handing out candy to kids.
2,076 postsrunning 55.2 hcultureThe Mouthy Renegade Writer and 4 more in the conversation - 11Trending nowFox News ratings fall
Fox News has its worst October viewership in years, while CNN and MS Now gain viewers before the midterms.
208 postsrunning 7.3 hpoliticsJacob Soboroff and 4 more in the conversation - 12Trending nowUS weighs Iran strikes after midterms
Axios says US and Israel may hit Iranian leadership and nuclear sites if talks fail.
457 postsrunning 32 hpoliticsAdam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) and 4 more in the conversation - 13LiveTrump subpoenas voter records
Administration issued over 100 subpoenas in a dozen states seeking noncitizen voters before midterms.
467 postsrunning 7.6 hpoliticsKyle Griffin and 4 more in the conversation - 14Cooling offBrewers vs. Rays, Game 4
Milwaukee infielder David Hamilton's solo home run on an 0-2 pitch tied the World Series game.
7,306 postsrunning 56.8 hsportsMichael Baumann and 4 more in the conversation - 15Cooling offJack Perry hugs Taz on Dynamite
On AEW Dynamite, Jack Perry gave Taz a mocking counter-hug aimed at Kyle and Don.
913 postsrunning 1.5 hsportsThe Realest Swerve Strickland and 4 more in the conversation - 16Cooling offObama campaigns for Jon Ossoff
Barack Obama praised Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff and tied him to his mentor, the late John Lewis.
394 postsrunning 3 hpoliticsAaron Rupar and 4 more in the conversation - 17Cooling offTrump calls for Peltola prosecution
Speaking at Joint Base Andrews, Donald Trump said Mary Peltola should quit her race and face charges.
11,352 postsrunning 154.3 hpoliticsjamelle and 4 more in the conversation - 18Cooling offDOJ seeks ballot set-asides
Trump's DOJ targets 400 Washington and 20,000 California votes over noncitizen claims.
1,429 postsrunning 51.2 hpoliticsMarc Elias and 4 more in the conversation - 19Cooling offHaley Stevens' fiancé backs Mike Rogers
Haley Stevens' partner says he'll vote for Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan's Senate race.
936 postsrunning 4.7 hpoliticsjamelle and 4 more in the conversation - 20Cooling offObama's Trump arts and crafts jab
Barack Obama said Donald Trump is supergluing gold medallions in the Oval Office during a war.
346 postsrunning 1.5 hpoliticsAcyn and 4 more in the conversation - 21Cooling offMurkowski endorses Democrat for governor
Lisa Murkowski backs Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins over Trump-endorsed Bernadette Wilson in Alaska.
479 postsrunning 6.5 hpoliticsBarack Obama and 4 more in the conversation - 22Cooling offDHS employee records leak
Data on over 40,000 Homeland Security staff, including undercover ICE agents, was published by DDoSecrets.
792 postsrunning 6 hpoliticsMarc Elias and 4 more in the conversation - 23Cooling offJames O'Keefe charged in Minnesota
Hennepin County prosecutors bring unlawful voting and identity theft felonies against him and Cam Higby.
756 postsrunning 7.6 hpoliticsKyle Griffin and 4 more in the conversation - 24Cooling offFlávio Bolsonaro lands in Miami
Brazilian politician arrived with family as the Trump administration plans US visas.
9,255 postsrunning 59.7 hpoliticsLakota Man 🪶 and 4 more in the conversation - 25Cooling offBernie Moreno's remarks on El-Sayed
Ohio senator says Abdul El-Sayed shouldn't be in DC, citing Jesus, while backing Mike Rogers.
745 postsrunning 3 hpoliticsjamelle and 4 more in the conversation
Fastest-climbing accounts, last 7 days
ranked out of 3,613,227 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.
- 1Fur Affinity 🏳️⚧️
@furaffinity.net
+7.8%
+1.4K to 20K
- 2Philadelphia 76ers
@sixersnba.bsky.social
+7.3%
+948 to 14K
- 3Dr. Amy Acton
@amyactonoh.bsky.social
+6.8%
+2.0K to 32K
- 4Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium
@ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · crypto
+6.4%
+1.3K to 22K
- 5billboard
@billboard.com · news
+6.4%
+1.3K to 22K
- 6Maeve
@mehmettilki.bsky.social
+6.3%
+851 to 14K
- 7Xela Hart
@xelahart.bsky.social
+5.7%
+2.3K to 41K
- 8ADHD Memes
@adhdforreal.bsky.social · memes
+5.7%
+1.0K to 19K
- 9Abdul El-Sayed
@abdulelsayed.bsky.social
+5.3%
+4.6K to 93K
- 10Jake Fischer
@jakelfischer.bsky.social · sports
+5.1%
+1.0K to 21K
- 11Pudgy Cat
@pudgycat.io
+5.1%
+1.1K to 22K
- 12Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️🌈
@skippjon1.bsky.social · politics
+5.1%
+1.4K to 29K
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 2026-10-29 02:04 UTC.
What this board is, in numbers
As of 2026-10-29 02:04 UTC, Bluesky’s trend service was surfacing 25 topics, 7 of them still marked as actively trending rather than cooling or fading, across 25 topics with a published post count totalling 80,318 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.