#brandjacking
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #brandjacking from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #brandjacking
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 · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-18 23:25 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-18 23:25 UTCLive pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-18 23:25 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 24 public posts (spanning ~45293 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 10:00
Languages: English (12) · Italian (11) · German (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.2
Top of the latest posts
Fake-GitHub-Repositorys: #Infostealer statt Security- oder Developer-Tools | Developer https://www.heise.de/news/Fake-GitHub-Repositorys-Infostealer-statt-Security-oder-Developer-Tools-11365096.html #Brandjacking #SocialEngineering #malware
📣🚨 Developers watch out as North Korean #Lazarus hackers are now targeting npm developers with brandjacking packages that mimic trusted tools and, in reality, drop malware to steal credentials. Read: https://hackread.com/lazarus-group-npm
Fake Prettier Extension on VSCode Marketplace Dropped Anivia Stealer https://hackread.com/prettier-extension-vscode-marketplace-anivia-stealer/ #FakePrettierExtensiononVSCodeMarketplaceDroppedAniviaStealer #AniviaStealer #Cybersecurity #Bra
What “brandjacking” means
WikipediaBrandjacking is an activity whereby someone acquires or otherwise assumes the online identity of another entity for the purposes of acquiring that person's or business's brand equity. The term combines the notions of 'branding' and 'hijacking', and has been used since at least 2007 when it appeared in Business Week referencing the term used in a publication by the firm MarkMonitor. The tactic is often associated with use of individual and corporate identities on social media or Web 2.0 sites, as
“Brandjacking” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#brandjacking across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #brandjacking 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/brandjacking