#essay
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #essay from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #essay
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-22 03:31 UTC20 uses by 17 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 2026-10-22 03:31 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #essay.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-22 03:31 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~326 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 08:00
Languages: English (26) · German (7) · Dutch (3) · Spanish (2) · French (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.2
Top of the latest posts
En zo zie ik er kennelijk uit als ik duizelig ben van blijdschap en nieuwe werelden die er voor me zijn open gegaan. Het was mega geweldig; de Studio, alles wat Mark me vertelde en liet horen, de basis die we nu al hebben voor het verder bo
Twee van de vijf genomineerden voor de Joost Zwagerman Essayprijs hebben zich teruggetrokken, omdat ze AI hebben gebruikt. Ik ben hier nogal door van slag, al weet ik niet helemaal precies waarom. Ik denk omdat ik er (net als de jury lijkt
"I Teach at a #BusinessSchool. It’s Time to Shut Them Down." #NYT guest #essay by Christopher Marquis. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/opinion/business-school-mba-harvard-cornell-cambridge.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JlE.i_mN.PaMDQ2MEv1
What “essay” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediaessay/ˈɛˌseɪ/
- noun(authorship) A written composition of moderate length, exploring a particular issue or subject.
An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal and informal: formal essays are characterized by "serious purpose, dignity, logical organization, length," whereas the informal essay is characterized by "the personal element, humor, graceful style, rambling structure, unconventionality or novelty of theme,"
“Essay” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#essay across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #essay 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/essay