How to Migrate Follows and Blocks from Twitter to Bluesky
If you’re like me, and you’ve had just about enough of being on Twitter and would like to move to Bluesky, there’s a way to take your followings and blocks with you!
To get started, go here and download the extension “Sky Follower Bridge”, which is a plugin for the Chrome web browser.
Next, go to https://bsky.app/settings/app-passwords and click “Add App Password”. You’ll be prompted to enter a name:
…and then a password will be shown. Copy that into your clipboard and click “Done”:
Next, go to your followers or following page on Twitter. The URL will look something like https://x.com/dmuth/followers or https://x.com/dmuth/following, but you’ll want to substitute your username instead of mine. Once you’re there, hit Alt-B (or Option-B on MacOS), and that will bring up a widget from the Sky Follower Bridge. Type in your Bluesky username and the App Password:
This will bring up a pane which will populate with all usernames on Bsky that match what you’re following on Twitter:
…note that this may take a few minutes to populate.
Finally, if you also want to migrate your block list, go to https://x.com/settings/blocked/all and run the widget again — this will give you a list of all matching names on Bluesky with the option to block them:
…and that’s it, you’re done! One thing I noticed when I ran this yesterday was that many of the people I followed, upon seeing that I followed them, returned the favor. This increases the amount of connections within Bluesky, and the overall usefulness of Bsky as a social network.
Happy Skeeeting/Skying/whatever it’s called!
Oh, and if you made it this far, here’s the full image that was shown in the teaser:
