#emoticons
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #emoticons from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #emoticons
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.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-28 02:00 UTC0 uses by 0 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 2026-09-28 02:00 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-28 02:00 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~18657 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 12:00
Languages: English (34) · German (3) · Norwegian Nynorsk (1) · Portuguese (1)
Avg boosts / post: 2.3
Top of the latest posts
"The internet emoticon truly traces its lineage directly to Fahlman, who says he came up with the idea after reading "lengthy diatribes" from people on the message board who failed to get the joke or the sarcasm in a particular post -- whic
"The internet emoticon truly traces its lineage directly to Fahlman, who says he came up with the idea after reading "lengthy diatribes" from people on the message board who failed to get the joke or the sarcasm in a particular post -- whic
I didn't think I'd turn into a poster, but according to #Mastodon this is my 61ˢᵗ post! 🎉🎉🎉 Celebrate this one with me by commenting your silliest emojis! \( ﾟヮﾟ)/ :bongoCat: :blobaww: :AAAAAA: :catjam: #emoji #emoticons #emotes #fediver
What “emoticons” means
WikipediaAn emoticon is a pictorial representation of a facial expression using characters—usually punctuation marks, numbers and letters—to express a person's feelings, mood or reaction, without needing to describe it in detail.
“Emoticon” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#emoticons across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #emoticons 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/emoticons