#overdiagnosis
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #overdiagnosis 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 · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-27 19:18 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 2026-09-27 19:18 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-27 19:18 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 14 public posts (spanning ~28121 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 14:00
Languages: English (14)
Avg boosts / post: 2.5
Top of the latest posts
"Why is our health secretary picking over the number of diagnoses, when he could be focusing on why our systems of work, education and care are still so closed off to the people who get them?" The ever-excellent John Harris dissects the nas
Characteristically nuanced take by @Garwboy on the mental health #overdiagnosis trope https://open.substack.com/pub/theneuroscienceofeverydaylife/p/the-obsession-with-overdiagnosis
What’s in a label? Our review just published: “Quantifying the psychological and behavioural consequences of a diagnostic label for non-cancer conditions: systematic review” - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-open/article/qua
What “overdiagnosis” means
WikipediaOverdiagnosis is the diagnosis of disease that will never cause symptoms or death during a patient's ordinarily expected lifetime and thus presents no practical threat regardless of being pathologic. Overdiagnosis is a side effect of screening for early forms of disease. Although screening saves lives in some cases, in others it may turn people into patients unnecessarily and may lead to treatments that do no good and perhaps do harm. Given the tremendous variability that is normal in biology, i
“Overdiagnosis” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#overdiagnosis across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #overdiagnosis 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/overdiagnosis