#tarpitting

Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #tarpitting from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.

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Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
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Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
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Recent posts
Mastodon
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Recent pace
Mastodon · last 0
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Avg reactions / post
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Reddit posts / month
Reddit search
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Open-web mentions
hashtag.org Firehose

Day-by-day usage

measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-25 18:58 UTC

No measured public usage for #tarpitting in the last 7 days. That is a real result, and a good one to know: this hashtag is wide open right now. We show a dash before we ever show a made-up number. Browse the trending index for tags with live measurements.

Related hashtags

measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-25 18:58 UTC

No related tags with measured usage found for #tarpitting.

Live pulse

measured · Mastodon tag timeline · fetched 2026-09-25 18:58 UTC

No recent public posts found for #tarpitting on Mastodon. Nothing measured, so nothing shown.

What “tarpitting” means

Wikipedia

A tarpit is a service on a computer system that purposely delays incoming connections. The technique was developed as a defense against spam and computer worms. The idea is that network abuses such as spamming or broad scanning are less effective, and therefore less attractive, if they take too long. The concept is analogous with a tar pit, in which animals can get bogged down and slowly sink under the surface, like in a swamp.

“Tarpit (networking)” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →

#tarpitting across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #tarpitting 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/tarpitting