#cowsay
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #cowsay from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-26 19:22 UTCNo measured public usage for #cowsay in the last 7 days. That is a real result, and a good one to know: this hashtag is wide open right now. We show a dash before we ever show a made-up number. Browse the trending index for tags with live measurements.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-26 19:22 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #cowsay.
Live pulse
measured · Mastodon tag timeline · fetched 2026-09-26 19:22 UTCNo recent public posts found for #cowsay on Mastodon. Nothing measured, so nothing shown.
What “cowsay” means
Wikipediacowsay is a program that generates ASCII art pictures of a cow with a message. It can also generate pictures using pre-made images of other animals, such as Tux the Penguin, the Linux mascot. It is written in Perl. There is also a related program called cowthink, with cows with thought bubbles rather than speech bubbles. .cow files for cowsay exist which are able to produce different variants of cows, with different kinds of eyes, and so forth. It is sometimes used on IRC, desktop screenshots, a
“Cowsay” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#cowsay across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #cowsay 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/cowsay