#intertubes

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

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0
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
0
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
5
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 5
15
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 5
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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 2026-10-14 21:06 UTC
0
10-08
0
10-09
0
10-10
0
10-11
0
10-12
0
10-13
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10-14

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 2026-10-14 21:06 UTC

No related tags with measured usage found for #intertubes.

Live pulse

measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-14 21:06 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 5 public posts (spanning ~53258 hours).

Top of the latest posts

  • Out there, in the worrying world of today is a little #Zilog #Z80 computer with a mere 64KB of #RAM and running the #1970s CP/M operating system. This little machine is connected to the #intertubes and it's serving a #singleuser #bulletinbo

    Wintermute_BBS@[email protected]♥ 76↻ 482025-04-04 19:28 UTCView post →
  • I'm still sitting here in the final hours of 2019, in the decade behind a friend already in 2020 chatting over the #intertubes about this same day 29 years ago.

    Diane@[email protected]♥ 1↻ 02020-01-01 04:03 UTCView post →
  • #DonaldTrumpTradingCards #DonaldDumpTradingCards #TrumpTradingCards #DumpTradingCards This kids, is what the #Intertubes were made for. https://honesttrumpcards.com

    Lance Taylor 💾@[email protected]♥ 0↻ 02022-12-16 07:45 UTCView post →

What “intertubes” means

Wikipedia

"A series of tubes" is a phrase used originally as an analogy by then-United States Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) to describe the Internet in the context of opposing net neutrality. On June 28, 2006, he used this metaphor to criticize a proposed amendment to a committee bill. The amendment would have prohibited Internet service providers such as AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon Communications from charging fees to give some companies' data a higher priority in relation to other traf

“Series of tubes” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →

#intertubes across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #intertubes 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/intertubes