#thebutton
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #thebutton from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #thebutton
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-11 09:20 UTCNo measured public usage for #thebutton 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 2026-09-11 09:20 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #thebutton.
Live pulse
measured · Mastodon tag timeline · fetched 2026-09-11 09:20 UTCNo recent public posts found for #thebutton on Mastodon. Nothing measured, so nothing shown.
What “thebutton” means
WikipediaThe Button was an online meta-game and social experiment that featured an online button and 60-second countdown timer that would reset each time the button was pressed. The experiment was created by Josh Wardle, also known as powerlanguage. The experiment was hosted on the social networking website Reddit beginning on 1 April 2015, and was active until 5 June 2015, the first time that no user pressed the button before the timer reached zero. The game was started by a Reddit administrator.
“The Button (Reddit)” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#thebutton across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #thebutton 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/thebutton