#newssources
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #newssources from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #newssources
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 2026-09-30 03:03 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 2026-09-30 03:03 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-30 03:03 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 22 public posts (spanning ~62467 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 19:00
Languages: English (20) · French (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.7
Top of the latest posts
Do you like to read your news when you login to your favorite social media tool? I do as well. Come along and I’ll share a few of my favorite news focused Mastodon instance accounts. There’s a Google Sheets document you may want to copy or
I am occasionally asked about objective news sources. And I see a lot of posts decrying the MSM. So here’s how I consume news: I use a lot of foreign news sources. All have English versions. The BBC, France24, DW (Germany) News, Dawn News (
A #study by Canadian #researchers found that #AI models, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok, rarely credit #newssources in their responses. While enabling web search improved the models’ ability to cover news, attribution rates rem
#newssources across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #newssources 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/newssources