#lurkers
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #lurkers from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #lurkers
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-18 13:04 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 2026-10-18 13:04 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-18 13:04 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 18 public posts (spanning ~69323 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 21:00
Languages: English (18)
Avg boosts / post: 0.2
Top of the latest posts
@privacyfocused I don’t believe so, but I follow everyone on the Instance and boost their #introductions, so if you follow me those posts at least should be visible in your federated timeline, and if you like you can follow them from there.
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this is what grinds my slutty gears, wears at my LAST nerve- okay? Sw’s talking about lurkers and time suckers (people who take up energy& time without even trying to support) can be summed up with these basically: #swsky #lurkers #disrespe
What “lurkers” means
Wiktionary · WikipediaIn Internet culture, a lurker is typically a member of an online community who observes, but does not participate by posting or commenting. The exact definition depends on context. Lurkers make up a large proportion of all users in online communities. Lurking allows users to learn the conventions of an online community before they participate, improving their socialization when they eventually "de-lurk". However, a lack of social contact while lurking sometimes causes loneliness or apathy among
“Lurker” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#lurkers across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #lurkers 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/lurkers