#puffery
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #puffery from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #puffery
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 · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-08-12 07:51 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
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measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-08-12 07:51 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-08-12 07:51 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 3 public posts (spanning ~9721 hours).
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Languages: English (3)
Avg boosts / post: 0.3
Top of the latest posts
When they were sued in DC for making false claims about their "recyclable" water-bottles, their defense was that these were "non-actionable #puffery." According to Bluetriton, when it described itself as "a guardian of sustainable resources
It's interesting how many companies are in full blown "me too!" mode about AI. (That's the old Usenet "me too!", not the more modern hashtag.) Here's the thing I've seen so far, though -- very few of these companies actually seem to have an
#george_lemmen #art #pointillism #pussyfooting #puffery #punch #rainbow #tories #politics #global #future
What “puffery” means
Wiktionary · WikipediaPuffery is undue or exaggerated praise. Puffery serves to "puff up" what is being described. In law, puffery is usually invoked as a defense argument: it identifies general praising speech, typically produced by a seller, which is not expected to be relied upon and does not give rise to legal liability. In a circular manner, legal explanations for this normative position describe the non-enforceable speech as a statement that no "reasonable person" would take seriously.
“Puffery” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#puffery across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #puffery 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/puffery