#tenterhooks
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #tenterhooks 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 · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-26 01:55 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-26 01:55 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #tenterhooks.
Live pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-26 01:55 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 3 public posts (spanning ~20143 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (3)
Avg boosts / post: 1.7
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Top of the latest posts
Just saw a post which mentioned politicians waiting for final results being "on tender hooks" 🤪 It made me wonder if "on tenterhooks" was related to the place name "Tenterfield", and yup 🤯 Tenterfield England was a textile manufacturing c
@emsquared #tenterhooks
In a lesson about reusing other people's slang without looking it up, i finally googled "on #tenterhooks" after being called out and realizing i was mindlessly using the saying. I used it correctly, but it is the lamest metaphor ever. Anyon
What “tenterhooks” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediatenterhooks
- nounOne of a series of hooks used to stretch cloth on a tenter.
Tenterhooks or tenter hooks are hooked nails used with a device known as a tenter, a wooden frame, used since at least the 14th century in the process of making woolen cloth, over which wet cloth would be stretched to prevent shrinkage as it dries, but now superseded by the stenter in the textile manufacturing industry.
“Tenterhook” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#tenterhooks across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #tenterhooks 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/tenterhooks