#headline
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #headline from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #headline
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.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-18 05:40 UTC1 uses by 1 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-18 05:40 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-18 05:40 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~2602 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 14:00
Languages: English (40)
Avg boosts / post: 1.9
Top of the latest posts
@BBCWildlife Just one example how they sell the fact that snails and slugs can have teeth: https://flipboard.com/@bbcwildlife/insects-and-invertebrates-dntd66fnz/-/a-YxvwD_3iSMiKAugwo1SQiQ%3Aa%3A2902041756-%2F0 The #headline is like about a
SCRAPING BOTTOM.... Kalitta Air Boeing 777-36N hits its tail during a go-around at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport The plane landed successfully a few minutes later. #AureFreePress #MastodonNews #instagramnews #press #hea
🍌 After 15 years of solemn silence, a #garden in #Rayleigh finally spits out some #bananas, and now the BBC thinks it's #headline #news. 🙄 How riveting! A miracle of #nature, or just a slow news day in the UK? 📉 https://www.bbc.com/news/
What “headline” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediaheadline/ˈhɛd.laɪn/
- nounThe heading or title of a magazine or newspaper article.
- verb(entertainment) To have top billing; to be the main attraction.
A headline is the text indicating the content or nature of the article below it, typically a news piece, by providing a form of brief summary of its contents. The large type front page headline did not come into use until the late 19th century when increased competition between newspapers led to the use of attention-getting headlines.
“Headline” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#headline across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #headline 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/headline