#cpan
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #cpan from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #cpan
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 · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-21 05:07 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 2026-10-21 05:07 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-21 05:07 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~5971 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 11:00
Languages: English (39)
Avg boosts / post: 1.5
Top of the latest posts
"575 Pull Requests in Three Weeks: What Happens When #AI Meets #CPAN Maintenance" This is an interesting read, including the comments. https://blogs.perl.org/users/todd_rinaldo/2026/04/575-pull-requests-in-three-weeks-what-happens-when-ai-m
I've updated a new version of the #Perl module Robots::Validate to #CPAN https://metacpan.org/release/RRWO/Robots-Validate-v0.3.5-TRIAL This is a major rewrite that uses a configuration file (so that users can keep it updated independently
I just did my very first release on CPAN: https://metacpan.org/pod/Dancer2::Plugin::Feed I have to admit that I'm nearly evenly proud and nervous. I took some days to read into `Dist::Zilla` and today felt secure enough to actually run `dzi
What “cpan” means
WikipediaThe Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) is a software repository of over 220,000 software modules and accompanying documentation for 45,500 distributions, written in the Perl programming language by over 14,500 contributors. CPAN can denote either the archive network or the Perl program that acts as an interface to the network and as an automated software installer. Most software on CPAN is free and open source software.
“CPAN” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#cpan across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #cpan 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/cpan