#ad
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #ad from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #ad
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 2026-09-15 06:59 UTC20 uses by 18 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 2026-09-15 06:59 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-15 06:59 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~258 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 19:00
Languages: English (35) · German (2) · Italian (2) · Portuguese (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.9
Top of the latest posts
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Jimmy Kimmel shares AI-corporations’ ex-employees’ concerns that AI is trying to kill us (“this is not a marketing stunt”), and data centres’ all-consuming demand for energy & water, with an ad “putting the farm in Farmageddon” at 15:28 in
#NowWatching “The Old Dark House” (1963) Blu-ray from Indicator Films Get it: https://amzn.to/4xj3MHf Directed by William Castle Starring Tom Poston, Robert Morley, Janette Scott In England, an American car salesman ends-up spending a storm
What “ad” 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) →#ad across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #ad 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/ad