#EmDash
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #EmDash from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #emdash
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 · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-13 14:36 UTC1 uses by 1 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 2026-09-13 14:36 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-13 14:36 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~3714 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 14:00
Languages: English (32) · German (5) · Polish (1) · Czech (1)
Avg boosts / post: 2.3
Top of the latest posts
"The em-dash was not invented last November in a Silicon Valley server farm. It has been a staple of English prose since roughly the seventeenth century, and a darling of the literary canon for nearly as long. Laurence Sterne built Tristram
"Emily Dickinson so thoroughly owned the mark that biographers now speak of the 'Dickinson dash' — her first editors, in 1890, quietly deleted most of them to make her seem more ladylike, an act of vandalism successive generations of schola
"James Joyce preferred it to quotation marks, which he sneered at as 'perverted commas.' Nabokov — maestro of almost every punctuation mark — deployed it like a jazz musician. Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Plath, Zadie Smith: all on its side.” I'm
What “emdash” means
WikipediaThe dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the en dash –, generally longer than the hyphen but shorter than the minus sign; the em dash —, longer than either the en dash or the minus sign; and the horizontal bar ―, whose length varies across typefaces but tends to be between those of the en and em dashes.
“Dash” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#emdash across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #emdash 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/emdash