#defection
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #defection from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #defection
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-23 14:15 UTC0 uses by 0 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 2026-10-23 14:15 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #defection.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-23 14:15 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~29610 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 10:00
Languages: English (39)
Avg boosts / post: 0.8
Top of the latest posts
Canada's Tories didn't up their leadership game at their recent convention. Now they pay the price: Poilievre left ineffectually whining to an even smaller constituency of hardliners versus a growing plurality of pragmatists. #cdnpoli #defe
Suddenly, my throwing rocks is the one act people find urgent enough to criticise with a Qur’anic verse, after everything else that happened in that circus apparently failed to inspire the same religious concern. https://wrzky.com/circus/ #
#Liberal #unions ramp up campaigning for #KamalaHarris after #Teamsters #defection. Some #Democrats fear #fissures in the #labormovement could #damage the #vicepresident’s #candidacy, but the #progressive #fervor is strong. https://www.poli
What “defection” means
Wiktionary · WikipediaIn politics, a defector is a person who gives up allegiance to one state in exchange for allegiance to another, changing sides in a way that is considered illegitimate by the first state. More broadly, defection involves abandoning a person, cause, or doctrine to which one is bound by some tie, as of allegiance or duty.
“Defection” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#defection across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #defection 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/defection