#handwaves
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #handwaves from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #handwaves
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-27 10:54 UTC0 uses by 0 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 2026-09-27 10:54 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #handwaves.
Live pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-27 10:54 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 1 public posts.
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Languages: English (1)
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People rely on the wave of a driver’s hands lifting off a steering wheel, as a signal to walk across the street without risking bodily harm. A wink is fleeting, conveying lots of meaning. Humans communicate in #handwaves, #winks, and #whisp
What “handwaves” means
WikipediaHand-waving is a pejorative label for attempting to be seen as effective in word, reasoning, or deed, while actually doing nothing effective or substantial. It is often applied to debating techniques that involve fallacies, misdirection and the glossing over of details. It is also used academically to indicate unproven claims and skipped steps in proofs, with some specific meanings in particular fields, including literary criticism, speculative fiction, mathematics, logic, science and engineerin
“Hand-waving” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#handwaves across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #handwaves 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/handwaves