#crawlers

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

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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.

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4
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
3
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
40
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
1.1
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 20:10 UTC
0
10-13
0
10-14
1
10-15
1
10-16
0
10-17
0
10-18
2
10-19

4 uses by 3 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 20:10 UTC

Live pulse

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-19 20:10 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~2410 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 11:00

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Languages: English (39) · Catalan (1)

Avg boosts / post: 1.5

Top of the latest posts

  • The effect of blocking AI crawlers on Blender's infrastructure. This is the CPU usage graph. So many AI bots are crawling Blender's infra all the time. Just do a `git clone` and investigate local files. It's way faster (also for the AI user

    Sybren A. Stüvel@sybren♥ 20↻ 92026-07-30 14:55 UTCView post →
  • “AI webpage #crawlers are now being served their very own #ads that ordinary visitors never see, with one firm's boss openly describing a strategy to influence what #chatbots say about #brands. The next time you ask Claude about where to ba

    ☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻@[email protected]♥ 9↻ 132026-08-08 23:35 UTCView post →
  • This is the kind of shit that got me from disliking LLM companies to REALLY 𝙃𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙉𝙂 them. I’m tired of defending servers against stupid #LLM #crawlers https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlies

    Livia Weigel@[email protected]♥ 4↻ 162026-10-04 09:08 UTCView post →

What “crawlers” means

Wiktionary

crawlers

  • nounA person who is abused, physically or verbally, and returns to the abuser a supplicant.
  • nounA child who is able to creep using his hands and knees but is not able to walk.
Full entry on Wiktionary →

#crawlers across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #crawlers 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/crawlers