#Roud
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #Roud 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 2026-09-26 01:23 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 · mastodon.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-26 01:23 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-26 01:23 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 6 public posts (spanning ~6675 hours).
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Languages: English (6)
Avg boosts / post: 0.7
Top of the latest posts
"Tom Dooley" (#Roud 4192) is a traditional North Carolina #folkSong based on the 1866 murder of a woman named Laura Foster in #WilkesCountyNorthCarolina by #TomDula (whose name in the local dialect was pronounced "Dooley"). One of the more
"Midnight Special" (#Roud 6364) is a traditional #folk song thought to have originated among prisoners in the American South. The song refers to the passenger train #MidnightSpecial and its "ever-loving light." The song is historically perf
"Scarborough Fair" (#Roud 12, #Child 2) is a traditional Northern English #ballad. The song lists a number of #impossibleTasks given to a former lover who lives in #ScarboroughNorthYorkshire. The "Scarborough/Whittingham Fair" variant was m
What “roud” means
WikipediaThe Roud Folk Song Index is a database of around 250,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world. It is compiled by Steve Roud. Roud's Index is a combination of the Broadside Index and a "field-recording index" compiled by Roud. It subsumes all the previous printed sources known to Francis James Child and includes recordings from 1900 to 1975. Until early 2006, the index was available by a CD subscription; now it can be foun
“Roud Folk Song Index” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#roud across platforms
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