#stretchtext
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #stretchtext from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #stretchtext
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-27 13:57 UTC0 uses by 0 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 2026-09-27 13:57 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #stretchtext.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-27 13:57 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 3 public posts (spanning ~68 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (3)
Avg boosts / post: 2
Top of the latest posts
A second throw at the #stretchtext HTML-JS implementation. It now allows text to be folded back! I dabbled with the <details> element but its functionalities are too boiled-in to be flexible enough for this use. Ended up with custom tags (s
I was bored in the train so I made a small HTML & JS boilerplate combo for a working #stretchtext implementation. As you click on highlighted words, they are replaced by longer phrases. More than a technical tool, stretchtext is a practice,
This might not be the end, but WE HAVE SYNTAX NOW! Friends, I just added a tiny parser on my #stretchtext implementation to avoid having to write the text with HTML tags, instead using brackets and pipes to signal stretching pairs of shown
What “stretchtext” means
WikipediaStretchtext is a hypertext feature that allows the reader to expand the text to show more detail. The term was defined in 1970 by Ted Nelson as a genre of hypertext, although he had described it in unpublished materials as early as 1967.
“Stretchtext” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#stretchtext across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #stretchtext 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/stretchtext