#authorscams
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #authorscams from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #authorscams
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 2026-09-30 21:24 UTC0 uses by 0 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 2026-09-30 21:24 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #authorscams.
Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-30 21:24 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 4 public posts (spanning ~25113 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (3) · German (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.8
Top of the latest posts
Oooh, I just got an email from an editor at Simon & Shuster who wants to talk to me about the "fit" between my mystery series and her company. And I KNOW it's legit, because it comes from a GMAIL address!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 #AuthorScams #AreYouSe
The most sophisticated Book Club scam I’ve received Authors get them constantly. Those AI generated flattering emails asking you to give permission for a book club to discuss your book. But one I received a few weeks ago made me do my resea
News Summary: New AI-Generated Scams Target Authors with Fake Book Fair and Radio Invitations Thanks to Nate Hoffelder's morning coffee for the heads-up on a new warning from everyone's favorite scambuster, Victoria Strauss. The subject of
#authorscams across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #authorscams 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/authorscams