#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.

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2
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
2
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
40
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
43
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 40
Reddit posts / month
Reddit search
Open-web mentions
hashtag.org Firehose

Day-by-day usage

measured · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-12 04:48 UTC
0
09-06
0
09-07
0
09-08
0
09-09
1
09-10
1
09-11
0
09-12

2 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 UTC

Live pulse

measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-12 04:48 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~8842 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 10:00

00:0012:0023:00

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

    Simon Tatham@[email protected]5853292026-08-07 14:46 UTCView post →
  • 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

    Simon Tatham@[email protected]3392042026-08-21 09:40 UTCView post →
  • 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

    Simon Tatham@[email protected]2761442026-04-25 13:45 UTCView post →

What “putty” means

Wiktionary · Wikipedia

putty/ˈpʌti/

  • nounA form of cement, made from linseed oil and whiting, used to fix panes of glass.
  • verbTo fix or fill using putty.
Full entry on Wiktionary →

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 surface

Follow #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