#StackOverflow
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #StackOverflow from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #stackoverflow
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 2026-09-13 04:44 UTC2 uses by 2 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 2026-09-13 04:44 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-13 04:44 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~2008 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 11:00
Languages: English (29) · German (7) · Russian (2) · Czech (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.5
Top of the latest posts
I remain incensed about the #StackOverflow management selling us out, @mcc, and can't see a time when I won't be. They betrayed a huge, long-established, existence proof of institutional community knowledge building. *And* they saw the fasc
Every time I have to use #ffmpeg I am impressed by just how capable it is, but also with how hard it is to drive. And so if I've not already hidden it behind a small script I go to #Stackoverflow to get the instructions, and then write that
Every time I visit a #StackExchange site I get a little bolt of joy as I find someone upvoted a decade-old answer of mine. Sometimes on Meta SE, of all places. https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/248268/nemo This despite all the efforts by
What “stackoverflow” means
WikipediaStack Overflow is a question-and-answer website for computer programmers. Created in 2008 by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, it is the flagship site of the Stack Exchange network. Stack Overflow features questions and answers on certain computer programming topics, and was created to be a more open alternative to earlier question-and-answer websites such as Experts-Exchange. The website was sold to Prosus, a Netherlands-based consumer-internet conglomerate, on 2 June 2021 for US$1.8 billion.
“Stack Overflow” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#stackoverflow across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #stackoverflow 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/stackoverflow