#arstechnica

Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #arstechnica from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.

hashtag.org network · sponsored

Own #arstechnica

This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.

$10.85/ year · 11-character #name
Claim #arstechnica — $10.85/yr→Buy on hashtag.space (web3)
card via hashtag.org · tokens via hashtag.space
3
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
3
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
40
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
0.1
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 40
—
Reddit posts / month
Reddit search
—
Open-web mentions
hashtag.org Firehose

Day-by-day usage

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-25 17:38 UTC
0
09-19
2
09-20
0
09-21
0
09-22
1
09-23
0
09-24
0
09-25

3 uses by 3 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.

Related hashtags

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-25 17:38 UTC
#arstechnica_promoting_products
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#arstechnicaevent
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#arstechnicaarstechnica
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#arstechnicavideo
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#arstechnicaisclickbait
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#arstechnicast
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#arstechnicauk
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#arstechnicavideos
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#arsTechnicaDotCom
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#arstechnicaa
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#arstechnicacharitydrive
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#arstechnicainvestigation
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d

Live pulse

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-25 17:38 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~1692 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 21:00

00:0012:0023:00

Languages: English (26) · French (11) · Romanian (1) · German (1)

Avg boosts / post: 0.9

Top of the latest posts

  • Reading through the #arstechnica #macos Golden Gate review, and am really disheartened that (in the US anyway) it looks like you cant turn AI off completely. And the AI bits cost you an additional 17GB on top of the system install. I stoppe

    chris actual@[email protected]♥ 1↻ 12026-09-16 16:36 UTCView post →

  • @BleepingComputer Re #ASCII smuggling technique in #phishing campaigns, using #invisibleunicode There is a similar article on #arstechnica Sep 5 2026 @SmartmanApps Thx 4 orig BeepingComputer boost

    six_grandfathers_mountain@[email protected]♥ 1↻ 02026-09-07 00:08 UTCView post →

  • @arstechnica "Flock now knows what Kaukauna and McFarland realized: The same #networkeffect that helps build a business can also work in the other direction once customers start to flee." #flock #arstechnica

    Victor Forberger@vforberger♥ 1↻ 02026-08-17 21:30 UTCView post →

What “arstechnica” means

Wikipedia

Ars Technica is a website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society, created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998. It publishes news, reviews, and guides on issues such as computer hardware and software, science, technology policy, and video games.

“Ars Technica” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →

#arstechnica across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #arstechnica straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.

X (Twitter) ↗Instagram ↗TikTok ↗Facebook ↗LinkedIn ↗YouTube ↗Threads ↗Bluesky ↗Mastodon ↗Reddit ↗Pinterest ↗Tumblr ↗

Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/arstechnica