#talkies
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #talkies from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-26 01:12 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.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-26 01:12 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-26 01:12 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 12 public posts (spanning ~34653 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 01:00
Languages: English (12)
Avg boosts / post: 0.5
Top of the latest posts
Today marks the 130th anniversary of the birth of Conrad Veidt, great German actor and anti-Nazi. He was brilliant in silent movies (I love Weimar Cinema!) but also in talkies too. Sadly, he was limited in his speaking roles, once he left G
(Everything I have, except Glamorous Night, and The Dancing Years, can be found on Youtube.) Tomorrow is my birthday, so I've decided to treat myself to an Ivor Novello film. I must be very careful with these, as he only made a few. I'm not
*Great singers -- AND ACTORS -- can be SEEN, and HEARD, one hundred years from now!" #Edison #Kinetophone #deadmedia #talkies #onehundredtenyears https://youtu.be/uRqQhUQTaUc?si=88MiJPIT-V_WpFZA
What “talkies” means
WikipediaA sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before sound motion pictures became commercially practical. Reliable synchronization was difficult to achieve with the early sound-on-disc systems, and amplification and recording quality were also inadequate. Innovations in sound-on-film led to the first commerc
“Sound film” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#talkies across platforms
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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/talkies