#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.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-15 03:58 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 2026-10-15 03:58 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #thumbdrives.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-15 03:58 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 9 public posts (spanning ~41702 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (9)
Avg boosts / post: 0.7
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
With #TheInternet being fucked by "Safety" laws, how long before people send #podcasts and #vodcasts through the mail on #CD, #DVD, #ThumbDrives, etc?
New #blog post: I miss the days of ubiquitous portable data storage https://rldane.space/i-miss-the-days-of-ubiquitous-portable-data-storage.html 653 words cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @twizzay @orbitalmartia
R.L. Dane :Debian: :FreeBSD: :OpenBSD: :NetBSD:🍵 :MiraLovesYou:@[email protected]♥ 0↻ 42025-04-09 13:39 UTCView post →
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