#howstuffworks

Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #howstuffworks from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.

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Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
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Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
24
Recent posts
Mastodon
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Recent pace
Mastodon · last 24
0.3
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 24
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Reddit posts / month
Reddit search
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Open-web mentions
hashtag.org Firehose

Day-by-day usage

measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-26 15:47 UTC
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0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.

Related hashtags

measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-26 15:47 UTC

Live pulse

measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-26 15:47 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 24 public posts (spanning ~50959 hours).

Top of the latest posts

  • Ever wonder how radio buttons—you know, the IRL thing that gave the form buttons their name—work? I had never really thought about it, but I loved discovering it with this video. #HowStuffWorks #UX #TIL

    Cassidy James :roost: :gnome:@[email protected]♥ 4↻ 22023-06-12 02:18 UTCView post →
  • Text Embeddings https://docs.cohere.com/docs/text-embeddings (good explanation) #LLM #learning #HowStuffWorks

    Nicole Hennig@[email protected]♥ 1↻ 12023-05-27 16:03 UTCView post →
  • How extensive is #hashtag #search on #Mastodon? I've been reading about it but I know my searches are often missing things. Is there a clear #explanation about how that works? Like which instances get hit and how far back it goes? I'm also

    doctorambient@doctorambient♥ 1↻ 02022-11-12 21:13 UTCView post →

What “howstuffworks” means

Wikipedia

HowStuffWorks is an American commercial infotainment website founded by professor and author Marshall Brain, to provide its target audience an insight into the way many things work. The site uses various media to explain complex concepts, terminology, and mechanisms—including photographs, diagrams, videos, animations, and articles.

“HowStuffWorks” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →

#howstuffworks across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #howstuffworks 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/howstuffworks