Who actually has an audience on Bluesky.
Follower counts for 27 well-known accounts, read from the public Bluesky API every time this page is built. Not a list someone typed once: the numbers below are as fresh as this deploy, and the gap between the top and the middle is the whole story.
The ranking
| # | Account | Followers | Posts |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bluesky
@bsky.app |
34,316,007 | 802 |
| 2 | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@aoc.bsky.social |
2,209,724 | 611 |
| 3 | Mark Cuban
@mcuban.bsky.social |
1,481,202 | 2,908 |
| 4 | The Onion
@theonion.com |
1,351,625 | 7,939 |
| 5 | The New York Times
@nytimes.com |
1,338,227 | 40,514 |
| 6 | George Takei
@georgetakei.bsky.social |
1,320,674 | 15,785 |
| 7 | NPR
@npr.org |
1,005,263 | 17,647 |
| 8 | The Washington Post
@washingtonpost.com |
863,937 | 22,656 |
| 9 | The Guardian
@theguardian.com |
786,082 | 56,867 |
| 10 | Pete Buttigieg
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social |
758,754 | 461 |
| 11 | Jay 🦋
@jay.bsky.team |
595,224 | 4,109 |
| 12 | WIRED
@wired.com |
455,954 | 10,313 |
| 13 | The Verge
@theverge.com |
348,878 | 14,153 |
| 14 | Reuters
@reuters.com |
345,327 | 97,205 |
| 15 | Paul Frazee
@pfrazee.com |
309,388 | 38,433 |
| 16 | Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social |
258,265 | 2 |
| 17 | TechCrunch
@techcrunch.com |
254,830 | 19,136 |
| 18 | Molly White
@molly.wiki |
237,316 | 6,835 |
| 19 | Ars Technica
@arstechnica.com |
148,623 | 12,156 |
| 20 | Stephen Fry
@stephenfry.bsky.social |
107,765 | 1 |
| 21 | Anil Dash
@anildash.com |
100,900 | 20,607 |
| 22 | Wikipedia
@wikipedia.org |
56,850 | 1,468 |
| 23 | Engadget
@engadget.com |
15,019 | 11,960 |
| 24 | TIME
@time.com |
14,255 | 30 |
| 25 | Mozilla
@mozilla.org |
7,247 | 403 |
| 26 | wilw.bsky.social
@wilw.bsky.social |
2,663 | 1 |
| 27 | Jamelle
@jamelle.bsky.social |
6 | 0 |
Source: public Bluesky API (app.bsky.actor.getProfile), read at build time
on July 31, 2026. Accounts that did not answer are left out rather than carried over with a stale number.
Doing this for your own list
This page reads 30-odd handles. If you need thousands — or the followers themselves, or every mention of a brand as it happens — the same engines are available per-use, and they bill by result rather than by seat.
Bluesky Scraper Followers ExportWhy follower counts mislead
A large account that never posts is a billboard, not an audience. That is why the posts column is here: read the two together, and check the profile page for when the account actually started.