#8billion
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #8billion from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-08-01 12:58 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
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measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-08-01 12:58 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-08-01 12:58 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 35 public posts (spanning ~23402 hours).
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Top of the latest posts
Nice #dataviz. Today’s #8billion in context. For more on what can be done with today’s generations to spread well-being and limit future risk explore here: https://revkin.substack.com/p/as-the-human-population-tops-8-billion --- RT @simonge
How Facebook is Stealing Billions of Views https://tube.blueben.net/w/1DbaDaGKiBfmf3n2bpmrjB
How the world got to 8 billion https://tube.kockatoo.org/videos/watch/72ccc9f8-f5bd-4f46-93e4-19b0c7804708
What “8billion” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediabillion/ˈbɪljən/
- noun(modern British & Australian, short scale) a thousand million (logic: 1,000 × 1,000^2): 1 followed by nine zeros, 109; a milliard
Billion is a word for a large number with two distinct definitions:1,000,000,000, i.e. one thousand million, or 109, as defined on the short scale. This is now the most common sense of the word in all varieties of English; it has long been established in American English and has since become common in Britain and other English-speaking countries as well. 1,000,000,000,000, i.e. one million million, or 1012, as defined on the long scale. This number is the historical sense of the word and remains
“Billion” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#8billion across platforms
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