#astroturfing
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #astroturfing from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-26 17:08 UTCNo measured public usage for #astroturfing in the last 7 days. That is a real result, and a good one to know: this hashtag is wide open right now. We show a dash before we ever show a made-up number. Browse the trending index for tags with live measurements.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-26 17:08 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #astroturfing.
Live pulse
measured · Mastodon tag timeline · fetched 2026-09-26 17:08 UTCNo recent public posts found for #astroturfing on Mastodon. Nothing measured, so nothing shown.
What “astroturfing” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediaastroturfing
- noun(US politics) The disguising of an orchestrated campaign as a "grass-roots" event – i.e., a spontaneous upwelling of public opinion.
Astroturfing is the deceptive practice of hiding the sponsors of an orchestrated message or organization to make it appear as though it originates from, and is supported by, unsolicited grassroots participants. It is a practice intended to give the statements or organizations credibility by withholding information about the source's financial backers.
“Astroturfing” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#astroturfing across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #astroturfing 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/astroturfing