#putty
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #putty from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #putty
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 · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-12 04:48 UTC2 uses by 2 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-12 04:48 UTCLive pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-12 04:48 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~8842 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 10:00
Languages: English (36) · Russian (1) · Japanese (1)
Avg boosts / post: 27
Top of the latest posts
There's been some discussion recently of what motivates free software authors. #PuTTY was originally just a Telnet client. It became really useful when I added an SSH backend, during my last year at university. I did that partly because I t
This month's annoyance: people non-consensually assigning me tickets in their organisation's ticket tracker. As #PuTTY maintainer, I'm often asked to fill in annoying government paperwork, usually from someone else's country. "All the softw
Around 2000, when #PuTTY first started to become popular, it brought me more and more email. At some point it became hard to answer it all, and my inbox started to grow. Young and optimistic, I came up with a plan to fix this. I drew a line
What “putty” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediaputty/ˈpʌti/
- nounA form of cement, made from linseed oil and whiting, used to fix panes of glass.
- verbTo fix or fill using putty.
Putty is a material with high plasticity, similar in texture to clay or dough, typically used in domestic construction and repair as a sealant or filler. Although some types of putty slowly polymerise and become stiff, many putties can be reworked indefinitely, in contrast to other types of filler which typically set solid relatively rapidly.
“Putty” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#putty across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #putty 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/putty