#HowItStarted

Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #HowItStarted from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.

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Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
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Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
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Recent posts
Mastodon
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Recent pace
Mastodon · last 34
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Mastodon · last 34
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Open-web mentions
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Day-by-day usage

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-11-07 08:50 UTC
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0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.

Related hashtags

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-11-07 08:50 UTC
#howitstartedhowitsgoing
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#howitstartedvhowitsgoing
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#howitstartedhowitisgoing
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Live pulse

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-07 08:50 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 34 public posts (spanning ~52632 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 12:00

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Languages: English (25) · German (4) · French (1)

Avg boosts / post: 1.6

Top of the latest posts

  • How it started | How it's going Almost OTD one year ago I started my journey down the astrophotography rabbit hole. I took my first astronomical picture, the Andromeda galaxy (M31), with a stock DSLR, a zoom lens and a simple star tracker (

    Julien :ve: 🔭:python:@[email protected]♥ 3↻ 162023-08-31 12:29 UTCView post →

  • #meme #HowItStarted

    Xavier Ashe :donor:@[email protected]♥ 1↻ 12023-01-05 22:37 UTCView post →

  • Ich sprach also mit Hundehaltys darüber, ob sie #barfen möchten und was sie davon abhält. Die wichtigsten Gründe dagegen waren damals: - ich habe Angst etwas falsch zu machen - es ist zu viel Arbeit - ich wüsste gar nicht, woher ich die Zut

    frischfüttern@[email protected]♥ 0↻ 52026-10-15 06:59 UTCView post →

#howitstarted across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #howitstarted 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.

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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/howitstarted