#etaoinshrdlu
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #etaoinshrdlu from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-08-03 04:08 UTCNo measured public usage for #etaoinshrdlu in the last 7 days. That is a real result, and a good one to know: this hashtag is wide open right now. We show a dash before we ever show a made-up number. Browse the trending index for tags with live measurements.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-08-03 04:08 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #etaoinshrdlu.
Live pulse
measured · Mastodon tag timeline · fetched 2026-08-03 04:08 UTCNo recent public posts found for #etaoinshrdlu on Mastodon. Nothing measured, so nothing shown.
What “etaoinshrdlu” means
WikipediaEtaoin shrdlu is a nonsense phrase that sometimes appeared by accident in print in the days of hot type publishing. It resulted from the custom of Linotype machine operators intentionally typing the words by sliding a finger over columns of keys to quickly finish a line containing a mistake before retyping to correct the error. This method was faster than manually manipulating an incomplete line to remove the error. The phrase, which was also supposed to be a warning to proofreaders, was inadver
“Etaoin shrdlu” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#etaoinshrdlu across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #etaoinshrdlu 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.
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