#sensationalism

Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #sensationalism from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.

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Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
0
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
39
Recent posts
Mastodon
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Recent pace
Mastodon · last 39
0.1
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 39
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Reddit posts / month
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Open-web mentions
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Day-by-day usage

measured · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-25 19:07 UTC
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0 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 2026-09-25 19:07 UTC

Live pulse

measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-25 19:07 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 39 public posts (spanning ~48681 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 20:00

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Languages: English (38)

Avg boosts / post: 0.6

Top of the latest posts

  • Polymarket Spreads Sensationalist Garbage About Hantavirus Case in U.S. https://gizmodo.com/polymarket-spreads-sensationalist-garbage-about-hantavirus-case-in-u-s-2000759404 #news #politics #propaganda #scam #hantavirus #sensationalism #pol

    Frankie ✅@[email protected]♥ 1↻ 22026-05-18 14:03 UTCView post →
  • https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Marcelin-LaVieParisienne-1863/ Three of about 12 images from an 1865 article about spiritists, people using mediums to communicate with the dead. Hugely popular in 1860s. The article purports to be a translate o

    barefootliam@[email protected]♥ 1↻ 02026-02-28 18:07 UTCView post →
  • With the advance of #aihallucinations being propelled to the top of your favourite search engine, #FakeNews and #sensationalism in news, regardless of where you lay on the political spectrum, and news articles that exist solely for generati

    Ferrus :verified_paw:@[email protected]♥ 1↻ 42025-08-16 20:18 UTCView post →

What “sensationalism” means

Wiktionary · Wikipedia

sensationalism

  • nounThe use of sensational subject matter, style or methods, or the sensational subject matter itself; behavior, published materials, or broadcasts that are intentionally controversial, exaggerated, lurid, loud, or attention-grabbing. Especially applied to news media in a pejorative sense that they are reporting in a manner to gain audience or notoriety but at the expense of accuracy and professionalism.
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In journalism and mass media, sensationalism is a type of editorial tactic. Events and topics in news stories are selected and worded to excite the greatest number of readers and viewers. This style of news reporting encourages biased or emotionally loaded impressions of events rather than journalistic objectivity. Sensationalism may rely on reports about generally insignificant matters and portray them as a major influence on society, or biased presentations of newsworthy topics, in a trivial o

“Sensationalism” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →

#sensationalism across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #sensationalism 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/sensationalism