#daringfireball
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #daringfireball from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #daringfireball
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-16 19:52 UTC5 uses by 5 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-16 19:52 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #daringfireball.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-16 19:52 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~20351 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 15:00
Languages: English (35) · German (2) · Polish (1) · Japanese (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.7
Top of the latest posts
Done with Daring Fireball: If someone I liked in the real world decided they wanted to go hang out with a crowd that I found morally, ethically, politically, and in many other ways reprehensible, that'd be their bad decision, and not only w
“In summary, it’s no longer just a Nazi bar. In fact, if you had a drink there a year ago and were put off by the crowd and decor, let me assure you: the Hitler posters have come down. Riefenstahl Movie Night is now just a campy sing-along—
RE: https://mastodon.social/@gruber/117424623082667290 “The culture on X today is remarkably friendly and inclusive. It is a cheerful place.” I’m pretty sure it is. Take a look at the owner doing this cheerful salute 🙄 #DaringFireball #Elo
What “daringfireball” means
WikipediaJohn Gruber is a technology blogger, UI designer, and co-creator of the Markdown markup language. Gruber writes the Apple enthusiast blog Daring Fireball and hosts its accompanying podcast, The Talk Show.
“John Gruber” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#daringfireball across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #daringfireball 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/daringfireball