#500characters
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #500characters 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 · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-16 10:45 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-16 10:45 UTCLive pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-16 10:45 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~20774 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 08:00
Languages: English (5) · Portuguese (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.6
Top of the latest posts
@RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist Yup. Mastodon clings hard to being purist, minimalist, old-school, original-gangsta microblogging. It's a miracle actually that Mastodon 4.0, released in October, 2022, introduced the displaying of some text
@AVILIFE I want to write longer posts though. You've got lots of options for longer posts in the Fediverse, just not on Threads and most Mastodon instances. One would be a Mastodon instance with a "hacked" character limit, but you'd have to
@Truth & Answers Let me be honest: Mastodon isn't the right thing to rely on for this. There are two common misconceptions on Mastodon about Mastodon. The first one is that Mastodon is the only free, non-commercial, non-corporate, decentral
What “500characters” means
Wiktionary#500characters across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #500characters 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/500characters