#viruses
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #viruses 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 · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-09 22:56 UTC2 uses by 2 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-09 22:56 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-09 22:56 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~980 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 14:00
Languages: English (37) · Spanish (1) · Russian (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.8
Top of the latest posts
Where are the #botnets, #viruses and #worms... for good? I know it's an ethical conundrum, but the worse the world gets the easier that question becomes to answer. All those black hats turned white hats just went for the paychecks and kudos
Air pollution from ships may be more harmful than road traffic emissions, port study finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/04/pollutionwatch-ships-air-pollution-emissions-port-study #AirPollution #CruiseShips #pollution #vi
‘All it will take is one screw-up’: #AI groups race to limit #bioweapon risks Executives and #biosecurity experts are concerned that future models could help users create novel #viruses or #bioweapons Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind a
What “viruses” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediaviruses/ˈvaɪɹəsɪz/
- nounA submicroscopic, non-cellular structure consisting of a core of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat, that requires a living host cell to replicate, and often causes disease in the host organism.
A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism. Viruses infect all life forms, from animals and plants to microorganisms, including bacteria and archaea. Viruses are found in almost every ecosystem on Earth and are the most numerous type of biological entity. Since the first discovery of a virus, the tobacco mosaic virus, in the 1890s, more than 16,000 of the millions of virus species have been described in detail. The study of viruses is
“Virus” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#viruses across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #viruses 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/viruses