#howiheardthenews
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #howiheardthenews from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-29 19:22 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 2026-10-29 19:22 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #howiheardthenews.
Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-29 19:22 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 3 public posts (spanning ~5.7 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (3)
Avg boosts / post: 26
Top of the latest posts
Supermarket i was in erupted in spontaneous cheers, people hugging and high-fiving #howIheardthenews
Opened up my work phone and saw the news preview widget. Had to open the News app & reload twice to make sure I saw what I thought I saw. #howiheardthenews
#HowIHeardTheNews When I came home from groceries today, the TV had been left on with the volume down, and my husband was working from home. I saw the TV screen, then quietly peeked in his door. "Are you on a call?" I whispered. "No. Why?"
#howiheardthenews across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #howiheardthenews 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/howiheardthenews