#thumbdrives
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #thumbdrives 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.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-15 20:21 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.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-15 20:21 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #thumbdrives.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-15 20:21 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 13 public posts (spanning ~57752 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 13:00
Languages: English (12)
Avg boosts / post: 0.9
Top of the latest posts
A friend gave me a thumb drive, and it sent me down a dark path. It turns out it's in Apple's APFS file system. Lucky for me I'm poly-OS - I just had to try 3 different computers to figure it out 🤷♂️ . Why can't we easily share things any
Wasn't following the hardware sector of #thumbdrives lately. Now, I'm very impressed of owning 1TB USB drive with 1GB per second read and write speed including USB-A and USB-C in one device. 🤓 That's unbelievable 694 3.5" floppy disks EACH
What are The Best Thumb Drives & are there any Thumb Drives that have Protection Software Already Installed in Them? https://piefed.social/c/hardware/p/1614589/what-are-the-best-thumb-drives-are-there-any-thumb-drives-that-have-protection-s
What “thumbdrives” means
WikipediaA USB flash drive is a data storage device that includes flash memory with an integrated USB interface. A typical USB drive is removable, rewritable, and smaller than an optical disc, and usually weighs less than 30 g (1 oz). Since first offered for sale in late 2000, the storage capacities of USB drives have ranged from 8 megabytes to 1 terabyte (TB). As of 2024, 4 TB flash drives were the largest currently in production. Some allow up to 100,000 write/erase cycles, depending on the exact type
“USB flash drive” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#thumbdrives across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #thumbdrives 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/thumbdrives