#broot
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #broot from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #broot
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 2026-10-17 23:03 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.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-17 23:03 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-17 23:03 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~34070 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 08:00
Languages: English (37) · German (3)
Avg boosts / post: 25
Top of the latest posts
Here's a strange situation: thousands of #Rust developers use #bacon, #broot, #dysk, or #lazy-regex every single day — tools I wrote, maintain, and improve for free. Their companies, though? None of them want to hire their author. If you us
:rust: `bacon clippy` basically taught me Rust. I would not have the job that I do today without the work of the excellent @dystroy, who ALSO built #broot #dysk, #lazy-regex and a bunch of other Rust tools! The crazy thing? Despite this, he
This week I’ve discovered the power of tmux, especially when paired with ssh. Being able to use the power of my M1 Mac mini on my ancient laptop without any config or set up or even needing to git push is amazing. Some of my favourite tools
What “broot” means
WikipediaThe Omega Men are a team of extraterrestrial superheroes who have appeared in various comic book series published by DC Comics. They first appeared in Green Lantern #141, and were created by Marv Wolfman and Joe Staton.
“Omega Men” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#broot across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #broot 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/broot