#beacon
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #beacon from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #beacon
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 · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-26 18:34 UTCNo measured public usage for #beacon 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 18:34 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #beacon.
Live pulse
measured · Mastodon tag timeline · fetched 2026-09-26 18:34 UTCNo recent public posts found for #beacon on Mastodon. Nothing measured, so nothing shown.
What “beacon” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediabeacon/ˈbiːkən/
- nounA signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning.
- verbTo act as a beacon.
A beacon is an intentionally conspicuous device designed to attract attention to a specific location. A common example is the lighthouse, which draws attention to a fixed point that can be used to navigate around obstacles or into port. More modern examples include a variety of radio beacons that can be read on radio direction finders in all weather, and radar transponders that appear on radar displays.
“Beacon” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#beacon across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #beacon 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/beacon