#payola
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #payola 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 2026-10-17 14:11 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 2026-10-17 14:11 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-17 14:11 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~15501 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 09:00
Languages: English (37) · German (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.5
Top of the latest posts
A.I. takes #payola to a whole new level. https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2026/10/07/north-carolina-man-gets-18-month-prison-sentence-for-8-million-ai-music-streaming-fraud/ #Streaming #Fraud #musicindustry
Associated Press: Amazon to invest $1B into data center communities amid backlash against data center rollouts. “Amazon is investing more than $1 billion over the next five years into communities where it operates data centers for education
Gizmodo: Not Even $10,000 Could Convince These Locals To Stop Protesting a Data Center Project. “A major developer is offering $10,000 to every family in a small Pennsylvania town if they don’t object to the construction of a mega data cent
What “payola” means
WikipediaPayola, in the music industry, is the illegal practice of paying a commercial radio station to play a song without the station disclosing the payment. Under U.S. law, a radio station must disclose songs they were paid to play on the air as sponsored airtime. The number of times the songs are played can influence the perceived popularity of a song, and payola may be used to influence these metrics. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) treats payola as a violation of the Sponsorship Identif
“Payola” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#payola across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #payola 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/payola