#asterisk
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #asterisk from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #asterisk
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.
Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-16 22:50 UTC1 uses by 1 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 2026-10-16 22:50 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-16 22:50 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~2999 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 15:00
Languages: English (28) · Russian (6) · German (5) · Polish (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.9
Top of the latest posts
Well... New day, new owner of #Asterisk https://app.dealroom.co/news/note/brc-to-acquire-sangoma-in-204m-cash-and-stock-deal
☎️ I Connected a Desktop Phone to a FreeBSD Server, so Now I Can Call It // Alexander Deplov https://interfacecraft.online/blog/2026/desktop-phone-connected-to-freebsd-server/ #freebsd #bsd #asterisk #opensource #diy
☎️ Od trumny do trunku - Strowger, Asterisk i telefonia po godzinach Krzysztof Strug ze stowarzyszenia Krótkofalowcy 2.0 (@sp9fld), prześledzi drogę od automatycznej centrali Strowgera do współczesnego #VoIP oraz pokaże w praktyce konfigura
What “asterisk” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediaasterisk/ˈæstəɹɪsk/
- nounThe symbol *.
- verbTo mark or replace with an asterisk symbol (*); star.
The asterisk, *, is a typographical symbol that is a stylised image of a star. An asterisk is usually five- or six-pointed in print and six- or eight-pointed when handwritten, though more complex forms exist. Its most common use is to call out a footnote. It is also often used to censor words considered offensive. It is often vocalized as star, especially by computer scientists and mathematicians.
“Asterisk” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#asterisk across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #asterisk 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.
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/asterisk