#rands
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #rands from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #rands
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-28 21:52 UTC0 uses by 0 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 2026-09-28 21:52 UTCLive pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-28 21:52 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 13 public posts (spanning ~22620 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 06:00
Languages: English (5) · French (4) · Spanish (4)
Avg boosts / post: 0
Top of the latest posts
https://www.europesays.com/afrique/210148/ Afrique du Sud : l’essence pourrait bondir de plus de 2 rands en octobre #Afrique #AfriqueDuSud #bondir #Économie #lessence #octobre #plus #pourrait #rands
https://www.europesays.com/afrique/209281/ Afrique du Sud : 76 milliards de rands de surcoût après les fermetures de raffineries #Afrique #AfriqueDuSud #Économie #fermetures #milliards #raffineries #rands #surcoût
https://www.europesays.com/afrique/205457/ Afrique du Sud : déficit courant de 205,5 milliards de rands au 2e trimestre #Afrique #AfriqueDuSud #courant #déficit #Économie #milliards #rands #trimestre
What “rands” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediarands
- nounThe border of an area of land, especially marshland.
- nounA rocky slope, especially the area over a river valley; specifically, the Rand
Rands is the pen name and alter ego of Michael Lopp, a blogger, software engineering manager, and webcomic author. Lopp originally used the name "Rands" as his chat room handle, and it is his persona when writing about software management. Rands is his wife's maiden name, though they were dating at the time he chose it. In 2010, he began working at Palantir after more than eight years at Apple. In June 2014 after 4 years he left Palantir for Pinterest. He became Vice President of Engineering at
“Rands” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#rands across platforms
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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/rands