#newsbots
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #newsbots 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 2026-07-28 16:48 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 2026-07-28 16:48 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-07-28 16:48 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 25 public posts (spanning ~64012 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 03:00
Languages: English (19) · German (3) · Dutch (2)
Avg boosts / post: 2.5
Top of the latest posts
Oh yeah baby... I'm now destroying the shitty newsmedia practice of retweeting the same garbage eleventy times. The Masto #newsbots will now do their best to stop duplicate newsmedia posts. #algos #oneTweetIsEnoughThankYou
Looks like a lot of #newsbots are broken due to the latest #Twitter changes. This is an issue for anyone looking for news on the #fediverse as a lot of them were originally built to pull from Twitter rather than #rss. This also includes #Ca
Weeks ago i enthusiastically added several #NewsBots [& some twatter bots eg #RN's #PK] to my feed, but now i'm seriously considering removing them. Why do they consistently post & repost news links *multiple* hours, half a day, a day, more
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