#4ad
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #4ad from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #4ad
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 · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-11-03 07:14 UTC1 uses by 1 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 2026-11-03 07:14 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-03 07:14 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~10393 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 02:00
Languages: English (29) · Danish (6) · German (4) · Dutch (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.5
Top of the latest posts
Self-Titled Summer | Throwing Muses (1986, US) Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 771 on The List, submitted by @puffer. Here’s a quick rundown: Point of origin(s): This group originated in 1981 as a Rhode Island high school
Bauhaus, In The Flat Field, 1980 on 4AD Debut album from Peter Murphy, Daniel Ash, David Jay, and Kevin Haskins aka Bauhaus. Bauhaus and its many spinoffs (Tones on Tail, Love and Rockets, Dali’s Car) are among my favorite musical lineages.
Pixies, Surfer Rosa, 1988 on 4AD / Rough Trade Pixies were a Boston band, formed in the late 80s - Surfer Rosa was their debut full-length, following an EP (Come On Pilgrim). Pretty sure I saw them at Great Woods (now the XFinity Center) in
What “4ad” means
Wiktionary · WikipediaAdvertising is the practice and techniques employed to bring attention to a product or service. Advertising aims to present a product or service in terms of utility, advantages, and qualities of interest to consumers. It is typically used to promote a specific good or service, but there is a wide range of uses, a traditional form being commercial advertisement.
“Advertising” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#4ad across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #4ad 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/4ad