Bluesky, the company, is a Public Benefit Corporation. It is owned by Jay Graber and the Bluesky team. The board consists of Jay Graber; Jeremie Miller, the inventor of Jabber/XMPP; Mike Masnick; and Kinjal Shah.
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Bluesky Corporate Structure
Find past public statements we have made about Bluesky PBC’s governance and structure in our original announcement, other posts on our blog, and on social media.
What is the relationship between Bluesky and Twitter?
Bluesky was initially a project kicked off by Jack Dorsey when he was CEO of Twitter in 2019. Jackchose Jay to lead Bluesky, and Twitter paid Bluesky services income to build an open social protocol for public conversation that it could someday become a client on. Bluesky has been an independent company since its formation in 2021.
In late 2022, Twitter chose to sever the service agreement with Bluesky, and Bluesky agreed. The Bluesky PBC has continued to pursue its original founding mission to “develop and drive large-scale adoption of technologies for open and decentralized public conversation.”
How to get verified as a journalist
On Bluesky, journalists and news organizations can self-verify by setting their website directly as their username. For example, some newspapers’ handles that already exist on Bluesky include @nytimes.com, @washingtonpost.com, and @npr.org.
As a result, each organization now manages verifications for their own journalists too. For example, a newsroom can verify an affiliated journalist through a subdomain like @name.newsroom.com.
Freelance journalists and writers that aren’t affiliated with a specific organization can set their username to be their website (which is the domain that they own).
Read more about domain verification and how to set your website as your Bluesky username in our guide here.
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