#swatting
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #swatting from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #swatting
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 · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-14 21:28 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.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-14 21:28 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-14 21:28 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~7687 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 17:00
Languages: English (33) · French (3) · German (2) · Dutch (2)
Avg boosts / post: 1.8
Top of the latest posts
Many of you may have heard of #swatting and considering how many #queer folks are on here I wouldn’t be surprised if someone seeing this has been a victim or know someone who has been a victim of such an attack. Here is a new tactic - using
Part of my thread that's coming later this week will also discuss how being treated like shit/being disbelieved here (after getting swatted by a pathological liar who owns a huge Canadian instance, with a lot of ignorant supporters who seem
I got SWAT'ed and handcuffed LIVE while Linux development streaming! // René Rebe https://youtube.com/watch?v=FIEwcTKUFCA #swatting #linux #opensource
What “swatting” means
WikipediaSwatting is a form of criminal harassment that involves deceiving an emergency service into sending a police or emergency response team to another person's location. This is achieved by false reporting of a serious law enforcement emergency, such as a hostage situation, bomb threat, active shooter, or domestic violence incident, or of a mental health crisis, such as an armed person presenting as suicidal or homicidal.
“Swatting” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#swatting across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #swatting 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/swatting