#ghostwork
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #ghostwork from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #ghostwork
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 · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-30 10:36 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.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-30 10:36 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-30 10:36 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 28 public posts (spanning ~29848 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 06:00
Languages: English (17) · Portuguese (6) · German (2) · French (1) · Dutch (1) · Spanish (1)
Avg boosts / post: 2.8
Top of the latest posts
When we marvel at #AI advances, let us also reflect -- what type of labor made this possible? Was it exploitative? Much like massive physical monuments were built off the backs of exploited people, the massive digital models are often not t
If you've used ChatGPT, you may have noticed that it's relatively decent at avoiding toxicity. Is it because of some magical AI trick? Not really. The real heroes are the ghostworkers who have worked tirelessly to detect toxicity in text co
New essay: The Ghost in the Machine: On the Human Labor We Pretend Doesn't Exist I spent last Saturday labeling pictures of parked cars. Somewhere, someone is doing this for real—labeling data so an AI can drive. Nobody calls it what it is:
#ghostwork across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #ghostwork 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/ghostwork