#canaries
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #canaries from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #canaries
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-27 18:13 UTC1 uses by 1 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 2026-09-27 18:13 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-27 18:13 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~4868 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 04:00
Languages: French (26) · English (12) · German (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.8
Top of the latest posts
The History of Canaries in Coal Mines. The use of canaries in coal mines began in the late 19th century as a biological early-warning system to protect miners from toxic, odorless gases like carbon monoxide and methane. Proposed by British
"Thousands of University of Sydney staff walk off the job over AI and job security: ... management had rebuffed the union “at every opportunity” to enforce appropriate protections around the use of AI... Higher education is the canary in th
Meanwhile, large-scale ai-datacentres are being fast- tracked in Melbourne's inner west without consultation and Fire Rescue Victoria is concerned about massive fire risks (not mention all the other community concerns!) https://www.abc.net.
What “canaries” means
Wiktionarycanaries
- nounA small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.
- verbTo dance nimbly (as in the canary dance)
#canaries across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #canaries 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/canaries