{"id":545,"date":"2026-05-21T14:27:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/?p=545"},"modified":"2026-05-21T18:43:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:43:21","slug":"analyzing-bluesky-networks-with-skyangles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/analyzing-bluesky-networks-with-skyangles\/","title":{"rendered":"Analyzing Bluesky networks with Skyangles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our team began creating web publishing tools in 1998, when we launched a SaaS CMS for newspapers in France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then, in 2002, we launched a DIY ad network for blogs, the first social media advertising platform. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2010, we created a tool to help people on Twitter, who we thought of as micro-publishers, better understand their own networks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year, we created Quizlab to help Substack creators better engage  readers, boost loyalty and reduce churn. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now we&#8217;ve created <a href=\"http:\/\/skyangles.com\">Skyangles<\/a>, which offers <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\">Bluesky<\/a> users many of the insights we developed for Twitter 15 years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;re on Bluesky, you can use Skyangles to quickly distill a list of your biggest followers, both those you&#8217;ve followed and those you have not (yet) followed back. Just load in a Bsky handle and Skyangles does the rest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"462\" data-src=\"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-1-1024x462.png\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-559 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"462\" src=\"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-1-1024x462.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-1-1024x462.png 1024w, https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-1-300x135.png 300w, https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-1-768x347.png 768w, https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-1.png 1374w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Too busy to examine each and every new follower, many accounts have no clue how influential some of their followers are. For example, does former Twitter honcho <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/shellen.com\">Jason Shellen<\/a>, with ~1,500 followers, realize he&#8217;s followed by Atlantic photo editor <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/kokogiak.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alan Taylor<\/a>, who has 22k followers? This fact is unearthed by <a href=\"https:\/\/skyangles.com\/s\/252mqjht\">Skyangle&#8217;s list of Shellen&#8217;s &#8220;fans,&#8221; <\/a>ie followers that an accounts hasn&#8217;t followed back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Skyangles also can be used to identify who two accounts both follow, which is a great way to locate hidden influencers for a given domain, locale or workplace. Load in two handles and click &#8220;analyze.&#8221; For example, here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/skyangles.com\/s\/wz5nl6n3\">list of 31 Atlantic Magazine staff<\/a>, accounts followed in common by writers <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/radiofreetom.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tom Nichols<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/elainegodfrey.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elaine Godfrey<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One final fun feature in both search modes: a word cloud based on the bios of discovered accounts. Below is the cloud for the accounts followed by both Nichols and Godfrey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"412\" data-src=\"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-1024x412.png\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-549 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"412\" src=\"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-1024x412.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-1024x412.png 1024w, https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-300x121.png 300w, https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-768x309.png 768w, https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-1536x619.png 1536w, https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image.png 1748w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our team began creating web publishing tools in 1998, when we launched a SaaS CMS for newspapers in France. 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