#hobo
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #hobo from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #hobo
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-18 07:22 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 2026-10-18 07:22 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-18 07:22 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~50629 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 16:00
Languages: English (21) · French (5) · Russian (3) · German (2) · Dutch (2) · Spanish (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.4
Top of the latest posts
"King of the Road" is a song written by #country singer #RogerMiller, who first recorded it in November 1964. The lyrics tell of the day-to-day life of a traveling #hobo, who despite having little money (a "man of means by no means"), revel
Book Review The Hobo: A History of America’s First Climate Migrants by Robert Suits (Princeton University Press, 289 pp.) https://portside.org/2026-10-11/boxcar-nowhere #Capitalism #ClimateCrisis #dustbowl #Hobo #iww #Labourmovement #migran
RE: https://mastodon.social/@whyrweapp/117068268400499730 #hobo
What “hobo” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediahobo/ˈhəʊ.bəʊ/
- nounA wandering homeless person, especially one illegally travelling by rail or a penniless, unemployed bum.
- verb(perhaps pejorative) To be a hobo, tramp, bum etc.
A hobo is a migrant worker in the United States. Hobos, tramps, and bums are generally regarded as related, but distinct: a hobo travels and is willing to work; a tramp travels, but avoids work if possible; a bum neither travels nor works.
“Hobo” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#hobo across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #hobo 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/hobo