#pebkac
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #pebkac from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #pebkac
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.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-27 19:26 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.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-27 19:26 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-27 19:26 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~16065 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 14:00
Languages: English (28) · French (6) · German (3) · Russian (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.4
Top of the latest posts
Je ne suis pas certain mais #pebkac un peu quand même. #catsofmastodon
just took a full thirty seconds to figure out why i couldn't left click on anything #pebkac
Sometimes I feel really #n00b ... A couple of day ago the #touchpad on my #slimbook #kde edition stopped working. I restarted, looked at #dmesg, searched the device in #lsusb, but found no clue... I just used a #mouse waiting to have time f
What “pebkac” means
WikipediaA user error is an error made by the human user of a complex system, usually a computer system, in interacting with it. Although the term is sometimes used by human–computer interaction practitioners, the more formal term human error is used in the context of human reliability.
“User error” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#pebkac across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #pebkac 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/pebkac