#xkcd
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #xkcd from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #xkcd
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-14 05:41 UTC16 uses by 14 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
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measured · mas.to (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-14 05:41 UTCLive pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-14 05:41 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~343 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 20:00
Languages: English (35) · Spanish (2) · German (2)
Avg boosts / post: 3.6
Top of the latest posts
#xkcd No. 3304 Date: 2026-9-28 Title: Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer Alt text: "I did briefly visit Venus in August 2025, but I figured out the mistake on my own because it didn't have any moons." https://xkcd.com/3304/
#xkcd No. 3308 Date: 2026-10-7 Title: Juice Alt text: I need to push some updates to the remote sensing instruments, which are there to measure the surface and definitely not do anything else. https://xkcd.com/3308/
@leyrer Interesting! There are insightful stories behind almost every #XKCD. They are being collected on https://www.explainxkcd.com . It looks like what you link is the illustrated version of that: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.ph
What “xkcd” means
Wikipediaxkcd is a serial webcomic created in 2005 by American author Randall Munroe. The comic's tagline describes it as "a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language". Munroe states on the comic's website that the name of the comic is not an acronym but "just a word with no phonetic pronunciation".
“Xkcd” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#xkcd across platforms
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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/xkcd