#metadata
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #metadata from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #metadata
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 · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-12 19:45 UTC16 uses by 15 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 2026-09-12 19:45 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-12 19:45 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~442 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 10:00
Languages: English (31) · German (7) · Russian (1) · Dutch (1)
Avg boosts / post: 2
Top of the latest posts
#Privacyfarian hah I got it #Cryptofarians! Our religion is the opposite to their religion https://www.adexchanger.com/online-advertising/microsoft-ads-chief-rob-wilk-on-why-advertising-is-the-companys-newfound-religion/ "Wilk dubbed Micros
When a platform misspells a lead actor's name for 13 years, it isn't an accident—it's proof that data integrity is completely optional to the people profiting off their work! https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1cht06c2cxphg5ckqpt49/365-days-of-
How can DataCite make theses and dissertations more visible, discoverable, and reusable? Universidade do Porto is assigning DOIs to more than 60,000 dissertations, connecting them to the global scholarly record and improving the impact of t
What “metadata” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediametadata/ˈmɛt.əˌdeɪ.tə/
- nounData that describes other data, serving as an informative label.
Metadata is data that defines and describes the characteristics of other data. It often helps to describe, explain, locate, or otherwise make data easier to retrieve, use, or manage. For example, the title, author, and publication date of a book are metadata about the book. But, while a data asset is finite, its metadata is infinite.
“Metadata” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#metadata across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #metadata 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/metadata