#PollTax
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #PollTax 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 2026-10-13 21:03 UTC1 uses by 1 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 2026-10-13 21:03 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-13 21:03 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~10239 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 15:00
Languages: English (40)
Avg boosts / post: 2.2
Top of the latest posts
Today in Labor History November 28, 1990: Margaret Thatcher resigned in tears after a mass non-payment of her hated poll tax forced her out of office. The tax was a flat tax, hugely unfair, charging all adults, regardless of their wealth or
On 31 March 1990, Trafalgar Square saw its largest number of arrested protesters with a staggering 339 people arrested because they objected to paying the hated #PollTax. That was until 6 days ago, when that ceiling of 339 was smashed! #Pal
More people were arrested for showing their support for #PalestineAction then there were who showed their disapproval of the #PollTax
What “polltax” means
WikipediaA poll tax, also known as head tax or capitation, is a tax levied as a fixed sum on every liable individual, without reference to income or resources. Poll is an archaic term for "head" or "top of the head". The sense of "counting heads" is found in phrases like polling place and opinion poll.
“Poll tax” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#polltax across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #polltax 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/polltax