#iconicity
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #iconicity from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #iconicity
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-17 04:12 UTC0 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 2026-10-17 04:12 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #iconicity.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-17 04:12 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 28 public posts (spanning ~99862 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 09:00
Languages: English (25) · Spanish (1) · Korean (1) · Swedish (1)
Avg boosts / post: 2.7
Top of the latest posts
Is my alphabet better than yours? Interesting findings on the degree to which signers feel that their manual signs for letters are iconic (and how they compare to the alphabet of another sign language) By @c_borstell, which means that the g
Beautiful paper by @c_borstell on iconic plurality across languages. I particularly like the way the diagrams make visible cross-modal similarities and differences in reduplicative strategies across signed and spoken languages https://borst
🎉 New paper led by the amazing Bonnie McLean! "Two measures are better than one: combining iconicity ratings and guessing experiments for a more nuanced picture of iconicity in the lexicon" :OpenAccess: :doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/langco
What “iconicity” means
WikipediaIn functional-cognitive linguistics, as well as in semiotics, iconicity is the conceived similarity or analogy between the form of a sign and its meaning, as opposed to arbitrariness. The principle of iconicity is also shared by the approach of linguistic typology.
“Iconicity” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#iconicity across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #iconicity 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/iconicity