#nymwars
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #nymwars from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #nymwars
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 · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-19 04:03 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-19 04:03 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #nymwars.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-19 04:03 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 19 public posts (spanning ~116454 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 20:00
Languages: English (18)
Avg boosts / post: 2.7
Top of the latest posts
You know who else has noticed that this is all about to turn into another episode of #nymwars? @pluralistic, natch. Please enjoy his thread on the subject, complete with a detour into Eastern European Jewish immigration, a subject near and
@lina I'd agree that you shouldn't have a single identity online, because you don't have a single identity offline, either. Nobody "is the same person" while cuddling in bed with their spouse as when their boss says "come to my office", jus
@sun @zaitcev google+ may have "failed" but it was actually usable and did a lot of things correctly while it was around. their primary fuckup was the #nymwars bullshit and probably also the forced integration with youtube. they should have
What “nymwars” means
WikipediaNymwars was a series of conflicts over policies that mandate that all users of certain social media platforms identify themselves using their legal names. The term is mostly associated with Google's name policies on Google+ and YouTube. Nymwars is a blend word composed from (pseudo)nym and wars. The name appears to have gained prominence as the hashtag "#nymwars" on Twitter.
“Nymwars” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#nymwars across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #nymwars 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/nymwars