#phreaking
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #phreaking 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 2026-10-14 13:25 UTC2 uses by 2 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 2026-10-14 13:25 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-14 13:25 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~33846 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 15:00
Languages: English (36) · French (1) · German (1) · Spanish (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.1
Top of the latest posts
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@sen/116618477936301567 absolutely fascinating: watch workers physically cut massive telephone exchange cables to disconnect the telephone exchange from the old electromechanical switching service, to a new electron
// Quand Roland MORENO offrait le "hack" de sa propre invention à la WDA ! En replongeant dans les réserves de l'Association WDA, nous avons remis la main sur un objet absolument extraordinaire, témoin d’une époque où la bidouille électroni
@mattblaze RE one of the early, pioneering #phonephreaks Yea, I heard the #offthehook #2600oth radio #wbai and podcast folks talk about him over the years, since the 1980s. @OffTheHook Thx for the reminder about the doc at #sundancefilmfest
What “phreaking” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediaphreaking
- verbTo engage in phone phreaking.
- nounThe cracking or exploring of a telephone system, e.g. trying to get free calls or to discover special service numbers or other internal technical information.
Phreaking is a slang term coined to describe the activity of a culture of people who study, experiment with, or explore telecommunication systems, such as equipment and systems connected to public telephone networks. The term phreak is a sensational spelling of the word freak with the ph- from phone, and may also refer to the use of various audio frequencies to manipulate a phone system. Phreak, phreaker, or phone phreak are names used for and by individuals who participate in phreaking.
“Phreaking” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#phreaking across platforms
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