#boids
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #boids from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #boids
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-11 15:12 UTCNo measured public usage for #boids 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 2026-09-11 15:12 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #boids.
Live pulse
measured · Mastodon tag timeline · fetched 2026-09-11 15:12 UTCNo recent public posts found for #boids on Mastodon. Nothing measured, so nothing shown.
What “boids” means
WikipediaBoids is an artificial life algorithm, developed by Craig Reynolds in 1986, which simulates the flocking behaviour of birds, and related group motion. His paper on this topic was published in 1987 in the proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH conference. The name "boid" corresponds to a shortened version of "bird-oid object", which refers to a bird-like object, as well as referencing the stereotypical New York pronunciation of 'bird' as . Reynolds' boid model is one example of a larger general concept,
“Boids” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#boids across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #boids 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/boids