#censys
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #censys from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #censys
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 2026-09-28 21:52 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 2026-09-28 21:52 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-28 21:52 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~16060 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 13:00
Languages: English (34) · Russian (3) · Japanese (2) · Chinese (Taiwan) (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.4
Top of the latest posts
new writeup: the latest DarkSword operator, chinese-speaking, well over a hundred panels found the whole thing off one http body hash. six panels, two totally different codebases, same guy we're at 7-8 unrelated crews running this leaked io
Hey, #Censys just released a new chrome extension https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/censys/cjcbocemonlaehhhpeaadmgakfofjlll
For someone starting out, that means the barrier is knowing what you want to find, not knowing that it's spelled host.services.cert.parsed.subject_dn. For someone experienced, it means the pivots you'd have skipped at 5pm actually get run,
What “censys” means
WikipediaCensys is a security service and company that provides internet intelligence based on perpetual scanning of the internet. As of 2023, it had 350,000 users. It was first created in 2015 at the University of Michigan.
“Censys” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#censys across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #censys 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/censys