#irc

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

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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.

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10
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
10
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
40
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0.1/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
0.3
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 40
—
Reddit posts / month
Reddit search
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Open-web mentions
hashtag.org Firehose

Day-by-day usage

measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-28 20:12 UTC
2
10-22
2
10-23
1
10-24
3
10-25
0
10-26
1
10-27
1
10-28

10 uses by 10 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 2026-10-28 20:12 UTC
#irc195
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#irc1014
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#ircc
1 uses · 1 accounts / 7d
#ircv3
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#ircg
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#irchelp
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#Ircantec
1 uses · 1 accounts / 7d
#irccsslucia
1 uses · 1 accounts / 7d
#ircaarticles
1 uses · 1 accounts / 7d
#anonnews_irc
22 uses · 7 accounts / 7d
#irccommunity
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#irccsfondazionepascale
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d

Live pulse

measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-28 20:12 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~501 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 10:00

00:0012:0023:00

Languages: English (32) · Swedish (3) · Afar (1) · German (1) · Ukrainian (1) · Chinese (Taiwan) (1)

Avg boosts / post: 0.7

Top of the latest posts

  • I do use IRC now, but despite being online since c. 1997 I only started doing so a couple of years ago—initially so that I could be in #chimera-linux. https://landofooo.social/@iscarlosmolero/statuses/01M5B1XDKJNJ63ATCP2F08KVQK #irc

    Wesley Moore@[email protected]♥ 7↻ 02026-10-21 02:57 UTCView post →

  • 💬 IRCv3 ｢ All of the IRCv3 extensions are backwards-compatible with older IRC clients, and older IRC servers. Our roadmap details the specifications we have in the pipeline, and our GitHub repository is where most of our specification work

    jbz@[email protected]♥ 2↻ 22026-10-13 04:25 UTCView post →

  • @netzpolitik_feed @bkastl Das #Internet ist nicht kaputt, sondern #vielgestaltig. Jede/r kann sich das Internet rauspicken, dass ihm oder ihr gefällt. Ich nutze zum Beispiel keine sozialen Medien ausser #Mastodon. Wer im #Usenet oder im #IR

    aproitz@[email protected]♥ 1↻ 12026-10-23 11:10 UTCView post →

What “irc” means

Wikipedia

IRC is a text-based chat system for instant messaging. IRC is designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels, but also allows one-on-one communication via private messages and chat and data transfer, including file sharing.

“IRC” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →

#irc across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #irc 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.

X (Twitter) ↗Instagram ↗TikTok ↗Facebook ↗LinkedIn ↗YouTube ↗Threads ↗Bluesky ↗Mastodon ↗Reddit ↗Pinterest ↗Tumblr ↗

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/irc