#citations
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #citations from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #citations
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 · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-13 14:42 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 2026-09-13 14:42 UTCLive pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-13 14:42 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~2378 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 13:00
Languages: English (32) · French (5) · Russian (2)
Avg boosts / post: 2.4
Top of the latest posts
When #AI tools hallucinate citations, their made-up author names are not random. "We show that #LLMs do not merely default to high-probability individual names when generating fictional experts: they produce correlated character ensembles,
It's been over a year since I have known about this. Anything that an LLM blurts out is not fact or truth, in fact, it's often a hallucination. Doing scientific (or any) research with AI puts you in the risk of presenting your final report
@keira_reckons Strange research that cites papers that don’t exist or papers that don’t contribute. 😐 Seems like a giant waste of time. Why is it rewarded at all. [I guess this is a rhetorical question; maybe a better question is: why do ‘
What “citations” means
Wiktionary · WikipediaA citation is a reference to a source. More precisely, a citation is an abbreviated alphanumeric expression embedded in the body of an intellectual work that denotes an entry in the bibliographic references section of the work, for the purpose of acknowledging the relevance of the works of others to the topic of discussion at the spot where the citation appears.
“Citation” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#citations across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #citations 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/citations