#spotted
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #spotted from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #spotted
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-12 03:55 UTC8 uses by 8 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-12 03:55 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-12 03:55 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~911 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 03:00
Languages: English (38) · Japanese (1)
Avg boosts / post: 41
Top of the latest posts
Introducing Moopsy*, the little stray can that I have mentioned quite a bit over the past few months. We're bunkered down getting our next Tiny Moments of Joy book to the printers today in between co-ordinating a writing festival, so I have
#Spotted on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand: A man (80s?), the spitting image of Tom Waits in a disheveled tweed coat and a homburg is enjoying an espresso at an outdoor cafe table. Looking up and breaking into a tender smile on seeing a
#Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A barista (20s?) is beaming as he tells a customer (50s?) that he's just met someone. He says: "She came in here for coffee and asked me out! Turns out she's a friend of a friend. It's been fi
What “spotted” means
Wiktionaryspotted/ˈspɒtɨd/
- verbTo see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
- adjectiveDiscoloured by spots; stained.
#spotted across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #spotted 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/spotted