#byte
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #byte from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #byte
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 · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-27 15:36 UTC1 uses by 1 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-27 15:36 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-27 15:36 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~9424 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 17:00
Languages: English (29) · Portuguese (3) · German (3) · Italian (1) · Czech (1)
Avg boosts / post: 5.2
Top of the latest posts
Wow. This BYTE Magazine visual archive is amazing! It’s every single page, from the cover of the first issue to the back page of the last, fully zoomable and readable. Oh and fully searchable too! Stunning. I still remember the January 1982
Amazing. A map showing every page of BYTE magazine. "This zoomable map shows every page of every issue of BYTE starting from the front cover of the first issue (top left) to the last page of final edition (bottom right)." https://byte.tsund
Reading BYTE The Small Systems Journal. June 1986 Issue (Vol.11 N°6). Computers and Music. https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1986-06 Cover art by Robert Tinney @electronicmusic @ExperimentalMusic #music #fedimusic #magazine #journal
What “byte” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediabyte/baɪt/
- nounA short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word.
The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit of memory in many computer architectures. To disambiguate arbitrarily sized bytes from the common 8-bit definition, network protocol documents such as the Internet Protocol refer to an 8-bit byte as an octet. Those bits in an octet are usually counted with
“Byte” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#byte across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #byte 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/byte