#tarpit
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #tarpit from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #tarpit
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 2026-09-27 08:37 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 2026-09-27 08:37 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-27 08:37 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 39 public posts (spanning ~45040 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 03:00
Languages: English (26) · German (4) · Catalan (1) · Norwegian Nynorsk (1) · French (1) · Russian (1)
Avg boosts / post: 37
Top of the latest posts
This is an old project, but by some miracle it's still working and I woke up this morning wanting to celebrate the things I love more. This Inkplate e-ink screen shows Conway's Game of Life, seeded from tarpits I have on the Internet. The t
Last night I made a fake nuclear reactor control system and put it on the Internet for hackers to find. It's a script implementing the absolute minimum of the VNC protocol to very slowly send a screenshot of a SCADA interface. I'm logging a
OpenAI is directly ignoring my robots.txt file which disallows indexing of /trash/ on my website. Their loss I guess. Or it's some other actor impersonating OpenAI. #ai #openai #tarpit
What “tarpit” means
WikipediaTar pits, sometimes referred to as asphalt pits or tar seeps, are large asphalt deposits. They form in the presence of petroleum, which is created when decayed organic matter is subjected to pressure underground. If this crude oil seeps upward via fractures, conduits, or porous sedimentary rock layers, it may pool up at the surface. The lighter components of the crude oil evaporate into the atmosphere, leaving behind a black, sticky asphalt. Tar pits are often excavated because they contain larg
“Tar pit” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#tarpit across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #tarpit 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/tarpit