#awk
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #awk from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #awk
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-24 06:41 UTC5 uses by 5 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-24 06:41 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-24 06:41 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~1578 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 00:00
Languages: English (37) · Japanese (1) · Russian (1) · German (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.5
Top of the latest posts
Use #awk to take a list of data with repetitions and build a new list of unique entries, with a second column displaying the number of instances of the original item in that first list. awk '{count[$1]++} END {for (x in count) print x "," c
#Unemployment news! Got my final pay cheque (which of course wasn't a cheque, I'm not one of those weirdos who likes to cosplay at being in the 20th century), so had to figure out how much of it I'll need per month. "This calls for a #sprea
Just spent half an hour helping a friend with an #Awk script before heading out. How's your morning so far?
What “awk” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediaawk/ɔːk/
- adjectiveOdd; out of order; perverse.
- adverbPerversely; in the wrong way.
AWK is a scripting language designed for text processing and typically used as a data extraction and reporting tool. Like sed and grep, it is a filter, and it is a standard feature of most Unix-like operating systems. The shell command that runs the AWK processor is named awk.
“AWK” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#awk across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #awk 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/awk