#astroturf
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #astroturf from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #astroturf
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 2026-10-14 20:30 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 2026-10-14 20:30 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-14 20:30 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~5912 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 05:00
Languages: English (27) · Japanese (12) · German (1)
Avg boosts / post: 2.5
Top of the latest posts
Ahhh, so the Jacob Coxon AI-doomsday tweet was a marketing astroturf campaign. #ai #astroturf “The thread hit the media immediately. Specifically, it hit the Wall Street Journal 18 minutes before the first tweet went up.” https://pivot-to-a
OS Age Verification bils are not funded by a "grassroots coalition of conservative nonprofits." They're funded by #meta. This investigative work suggests it's all a massive operation to increase Meta's data harvesting (massively) whie handi
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/1523329/nicky-hager-s-new-book-dirty-work-expose-of-taxpayers-union I had a vague idea that Nicky Hager's new book might be about the Atlas Network. Not quite, but one head of that grubby little hydra has
What “astroturf” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediaastroturf
- nounA synthetic material used in sports grounds as a durable substitute for natural grass.
- verbTo cover with an artificial grass-like material.
AstroTurf is an American subsidiary of SportGroup that produces artificial turf for playing surfaces in sports. The original AstroTurf product was a short-pile synthetic turf invented in 1965 by Monsanto. Since the early 2000s, AstroTurf has marketed taller pile systems that use infill materials to better replicate natural turf. In 2016, AstroTurf became a subsidiary of German-based SportGroup, a family of sports surfacing companies, which itself is owned by the investment firm Equistone Partner
“AstroTurf” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#astroturf across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #astroturf 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/astroturf