#newsie
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #newsie from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #newsie
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 2026-08-01 02:46 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 2026-08-01 02:46 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-08-01 02:46 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~15116 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 22:00
Languages: English (40)
Avg boosts / post: 3.3
Top of the latest posts
As you know we've taken over administration of journa.host and newsie.social, two instances focussed on journalists and news outlets. We've put together a news app that combines the feeds to give you the latest. It's a work in progress but
@avilewis Post on Mastodon FIRST, so quoters and the press look to Mastodon for news from you. POST on Mastodon FIRST. Do this with all NDP coms, FIRST on mastodon then an hour LATER on other platforms, rated by vileness. DO NOT post links
@jmaris And Canada is even lower than the States because 1 American, a far right Republican, bought 98% of English language newspapers. Canada's news system is owned by a US trumper. Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Vancouver Sun, Province
What “newsie” means
Wiktionary#newsie across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #newsie 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/newsie