#author
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #author from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #author
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 2026-10-30 11:14 UTC286 uses by 81 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 2026-10-30 11:14 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-30 11:14 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~21 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 15:00
Languages: English (40)
Avg boosts / post: 0.4
Top of the latest posts
#WordWeavers 2026.10.29 — Which character would you trust to take care of your pet for a week? Which character would be banned from coming anywhere near it? Pets show up so infrequently in my stories as to be surprising when they do. One ch
#PennedPossibilities 1135: Do you enjoy exploring new genres? For sure! I especially enjoy trawling for new ideas I might be able to adapt for use in one of my urban fantasy novels. Hopefully bringing something new to the genre. As to writi
@AverageS My Word of the Day today is BRUMOUS. Share YOUR words to describe this picture in the comments! Brumous, from brume, + -ous, probably modelled after French brumeux, foggy, hazy, misty, from Late Latin brūmōsus, wintry, from Latin
What “author” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediaauthor/ˈɔː.θə/
- nounThe originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.
- verb(sometimes proscribed) To create a work as its author.
In legal discourse, an author is the creator of an original work that has been published, whether that work exists in written, graphic, visual, or recorded form. The act of creating such a work is called authorship, which means a sculptor, painter, or composer is considered the author of their respective sculptures, paintings, or musical compositions. Although in common usage, the term "author" is often associated specifically with the writer of a book, article, play, or other written work. In c
“Author” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#author across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #author 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/author