#snakeoil
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #snakeoil from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #snakeoil
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-15 15:02 UTC1 uses by 1 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-15 15:02 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #snakeoil.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-15 15:02 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~5701 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 19:00
Languages: English (35) · German (4) · French (1)
Avg boosts / post: 4
Top of the latest posts
Wow – pure SnakeOil, those so-called anti-virus or anti-malware scanners! "we are unable to proceed with the whitelisting request unless the application is available on the Google Play Store"?!? WTF?!? 🤯 And yes, that's part of a real resp
LOL, next up, I bet, Radium Water Wired: Nicotine Is Mounting a Comeback in the Wellness Movement https://www.wired.com/story/nicotine-is-mounting-a-comeback-in-the-wellness-movement/ #snakeoil
Christopher Hitchens, gone too soon. #ChristopherHitchens #Atheism #Skepticism #JoelOsteen #Evangelism #Religion #Fraud #ConMen #SnakeOil
What “snakeoil” means
Wikipedia"Snake oil" is a term used to describe deceptive marketing, health care fraud, or a scam. Similarly, snake oil salesman is a common label used to describe someone who sells, promotes, or is a general proponent of some valueless or fraudulent cure, remedy, or solution. The term comes from the "snake oil" that was sold as a cure-all elixir for many kinds of physiological problems. Many 18th-century European and 19th-century United States entrepreneurs advertised and sold mineral oil as "snake oil
“Snake oil” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#snakeoil across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #snakeoil 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/snakeoil