#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.

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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
0.9
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 · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-15 13:08 UTC
0
10-09
0
10-10
0
10-11
3
10-12
1
10-13
0
10-14
0
10-15

4 uses by 4 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.

Related hashtags

measured · mas.to (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-15 13:08 UTC

No related tags with measured usage found for #daringfireball.

Live pulse

measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-15 13:08 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~29369 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 22:00

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Languages: English (37) · German (2)

Avg boosts / post: 0.6

Top of the latest posts

  • Is that a battery in your pocket or…kidding aside, this bit about the #VisionPro on the recent #TheTalkShow made me chuckle. @gruber: “We are powering it with the best battery anyone has ever made.” @adamlisagor: “This is an ingenious solut

    Scott :vm:@ScoPre♥ 28↻ 22024-02-22 22:58 UTCView post →
  • “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—

    Elton Cora (Honorary)@[email protected]♥ 7↻ 52026-10-12 10:35 UTCView post →
  • 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

    Michael Hanscom@[email protected]♥ 0↻ 82026-10-13 22:47 UTCView post →

What “daringfireball” means

Wikipedia

John 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 surface

Follow #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