#flashfic
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #flashfic from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #flashfic
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-28 17:36 UTC1 uses by 1 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-28 17:36 UTCLive pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-28 17:36 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~6906 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 22:00
Languages: English (38) · Finnish (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.2
Top of the latest posts
"Hey, I was in the future last week and I saw this cool new trend." - Yeah, I think I know what you mean. But it's not new. "Huh?" - It was a thing in Peru in 1326. "No way!" - I introduced it to them next year. "How do you know?" - I visit
"Excuse me?" Sweat ran down my back and front and all my clothes clung to me in a way that made me long for the shower I wouldn\'t get any time soon. "Would you care for a sample?" the woman behind the table said. She wore a wide-brimmed ha
"I'm sick of AI automatically post-processing my images. It's really fucked up my image library." - What do you mean? "It keeps inserting Arnold Schwarzenegger into my photos. There's no way he was around every time. Look!" - Oh, I see him.
What “flashfic” means
WikipediaFlash fiction is a fiction narrative in the form of a very short piece of writing, which still offers a character arc or implies a larger story. Some commentators believe flash fiction possesses a unique literary quality in its ability to hint at that larger story. It is briefer even that the traditional format of the short story.
“Flash fiction” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#flashfic across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #flashfic 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/flashfic