#boingboing
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #boingboing from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #boingboing
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-08 03:56 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-08 03:56 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-08 03:56 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~22214 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 20:00
Languages: English (37) · French (1) · Spanish (1)
Avg boosts / post: 4.4
Top of the latest posts
Relatively major culture-maker Boing Boing is running the headline: COVID pandemic enters seventh year with no end in sight and the article is not ableist, not bullshit, not denying reality. Nice! https://boingboing.net/2026/01/16/covid-pan
@annika I read Cory Doctorow's (@pluralistic) https://pluralistic.net/ blog where he does a 25, 20, 15, 10, 5, 1 year ago links and yesterday one of his #25yearsago was his first #BoingBoing post https://web.archive.org/web/20010124080600/h
I got mentioned in #BoingBoing—"When Meta, Google, and Apple agree on "privacy," watch your wallet" https://boingboing.net/2026/06/03/when-meta-google-and-apple-agree-on-privacy-watch-your-wallet.html #privacy #enshittification #oligopoly #
What “boingboing” means
WikipediaBoing Boing is a website, first established as a zine in 1988, later becoming a group blog. Common topics and themes include technology, futurism, science fiction, gadgets, intellectual property, Disney, and left-wing politics. It twice won the Bloggies for Weblog of the Year, in 2004 and 2005. The editors are Mark Frauenfelder, David Pescovitz, Carla Sinclair, and Rob Beschizza, and the publisher is Jason Weisberger.
“Boing Boing” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#boingboing across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #boingboing 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/boingboing