#unfollowing
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #unfollowing from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #unfollowing
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-20 20:20 UTC1 uses by 1 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 2026-10-20 20:20 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-20 20:20 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 15 public posts (spanning ~70889 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 08:00
Languages: English (14) · Finnish (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.5
Top of the latest posts
I guess I should do an #introduction here too... I'm an associate prof at the Department of #Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where I research internet culture (very broadly). I'm currently mostly interest
Seriously. Start #unfollowing people on the #BirdSite and it will show you people you have been #following for years but whose posts have never before shown up in your #feed.
@BBCNews You've just sent out a string of 33 items in a row. That's misusing the platform. I'm #unfollowing you. I can still see what you put out on my #rss feed.
What “unfollowing” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediaunfollowing
- verbTo cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity).
Friending is the act of adding someone to a list of "friends" on a social networking service. The notion does not necessarily involve the concept of friendship. It is also distinct from the idea of a "fan"—as employed on the WWW sites of businesses, bands, artists, and others—since it is more than a one-way relationship. A "fan" only receives things. A "friend" can communicate back to the person friending. The act of "friending" someone usually grants that person special privileges with respect
“Friending and following” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#unfollowing across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #unfollowing 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/unfollowing