#controversy

Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #controversy from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.

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4
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
4
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
40
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
0.1
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 40
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Reddit posts / month
Reddit search
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Open-web mentions
hashtag.org Firehose

Day-by-day usage

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-19 14:39 UTC
1
10-13
2
10-14
0
10-15
0
10-16
0
10-17
0
10-18
1
10-19

4 uses by 4 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 2026-10-19 14:39 UTC
#zooControversy
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#animalRightsControversy
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#controversymews
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#controversyfootball
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#TrumpControversy
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#BollywoodControversy
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#worldcup2030controversy
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#controversyuncovered
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#f1controversy
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#covid19controversy
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#HijabControversy
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#timai100controversy
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d

Live pulse

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-19 14:39 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~824 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 14:00

00:0012:0023:00

Languages: English (35) · German (1) · French (1)

Avg boosts / post: 0.5

Top of the latest posts

  • Who owns ‘brain rot’?: inside the international legal drama over a beloved meme https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/06/brain-rot-tung-tung-tung-sahur-noxa-openai-video #Technology #AiArtificialIntelligence #IntellectualProperty

    Technology | The Guardian US@[email protected]♥ 1↻ 02026-10-06 14:43 UTCView post →

  • #DropkickMurphy's Front Man Has THE BEST Take on #EdSheeran #Controversy and its going #VIRAL! #ReallyAmerican #yt https://youtu.be/x69FJaBAtLk

    :awesome:🐦‍🔥nemo™🐦‍⬛ 🇺🇦🍉@[email protected]♥ 1↻ 12026-09-20 18:04 UTCView post →

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77PTr4wY-kA The #anointing #oil #controversy: did #Jesus use #cannabis

    Karl Theodor@[email protected]♥ 0↻ 02026-10-19 14:37 UTCView post →

What “controversy” means

Wiktionary · Wikipedia

controversy/ˈkɑntɹəˌvɝsi/

  • nounA debate or discussion of opposing opinions; (generally) strife.
Full entry on Wiktionary →

Controversy is a state of prolonged public dispute or debate, usually concerning a matter of conflicting opinion or point of view. The word was coined from the Latin controversia, as a composite of controversus – "turned in an opposite direction", and also means an exercise in rhetoric practiced in Rome.

“Controversy” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →

#controversy across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #controversy 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.

X (Twitter) ↗Instagram ↗TikTok ↗Facebook ↗LinkedIn ↗YouTube ↗Threads ↗Bluesky ↗Mastodon ↗Reddit ↗Pinterest ↗Tumblr ↗

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/controversy