Dril and AOC are actually on Bluesky

Two Twitter icons joined Bluesky on Thursday. Dril was first, with AOC becoming a member of shortly after.

The invite-only decentralized Twitter various has been gaining steam in latest days — I’ve seen lots of people I comply with on the bird-themed social community begin to present up on Bluesky. However the Twitter clone may actually start to really feel like a New Twitter now that Dril (the Twitter legend who lately gave an interview as his real-life human self) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) have formally joined the platform.

There’s nothing on Dril’s Bluesky profile that makes it completely clear that it’s actually him. (He hasn’t tied a website identify to his deal with, for instance.) Dril has posted as soon as, but it surely’s an especially not-safe-for-work put up that I cannot be together with right here. However Paul Frazee, a employees engineer at Bluesky, confirmed Thursday that the Dril profile @dril.bsky.social is the actual deal.

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Dril’s look can also be notable as a result of he’s been dunking on Twitter for the previous few minutes and has been a key advocate of the #BlockTheBlue marketing campaign to dam individuals with Twitter Blue verification checkmarks. I don’t know if Dril goes to maneuver full time to Bluesky — I’d truthfully doubt he’ll within the close to time period given the platform isn’t publicly out there but — but when Dril stops posting on Twitter, I’d guess yow will discover his shitposts on Bluesky.

Ocasio-Cortez additionally hasn’t but tied a website identify to her profile, which is at the moment @aoc.bsky.social, however Bluesky staffer Daniel Holmgren confirmed that it’s really her.

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With two of Twitter’s greatest personalities now on Bluesky, any bets on how lengthy till we are able to’t speak about Bluesky on Twitter? It wouldn’t be unprecedented.