#favourite
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #favourite from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #favourite
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 2026-10-25 09:06 UTC0 uses by 0 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 2026-10-25 09:06 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-25 09:06 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~8818 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 10:00
Languages: English (36) · German (1) · French (1)
Avg boosts / post: 2.2
Top of the latest posts
Happy #Friday. This is my #favourite colour, spectacularly displayed in the shocking vibrancy of this beautifully unfolding oriental ooppy flower. It looks like a volcanic explosion, neatly crimped and folded, in an Issey Miyake fashion sho
I hear there's another swell of newcomers to the Fediverse / Mastodon. I have no idea what "forkiverse" means, but new people means an opportunity for a reminder: There is no algorithm here. You see nothing but the posts from accounts and h
We happy to announce the theme for our focus week in November! Got an archive story to share on our themes below? Consider writing a blog post for us, or posting on the day with the hashtag. We'd love to hear your stories... #Beginning #Loc
What “favourite” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediafavourite/ˈfeɪv.ɹɪt/
- nounA person or thing who enjoys special regard or favour.
- verbTo favour.
In history and politics, a favourite was the intimate companion of a ruler or other important person. In post-classical and early-modern Europe, among other times and places, the term was used of individuals delegated significant political power by a ruler. It was especially a phenomenon of the 16th and 17th centuries, when government had become too complex for many hereditary rulers with no great interest in or talent for it, and political institutions were still evolving. From 1600 to 1660 the
“Favourite” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#favourite across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #favourite 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/favourite