#paywall
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #paywall from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #paywall
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 2026-11-04 03:25 UTC13 uses by 13 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 2026-11-04 03:25 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-04 03:25 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~94 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 07:00
Languages: German (36) · English (3) · French (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.2
Top of the latest posts
If the allegations are true, #Brave has found a remarkably efficient #businessmodel: block the #publisher’s #ads, bypass its #paywall, #scrape its articles, then #sell the results to #AIcompanies. All while marketing itself as the browser t
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What “paywall” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediapaywall/ˈpeɪ.wɔːl/
- nounA feature of a website, application or service that only allows access to certain content or functions upon payment.
- verbTo restrict access to (a Web site or other resource) by means of a paywall.
A paywall is a method of restricting access to content, with a purchase or a paid subscription, especially news. Beginning in the mid-2010s, newspapers started implementing paywalls on their websites as a way to increase revenue after years of decline in paid print readership and advertising revenue, partly due to the use of ad blockers. In academics, research papers are often subject to a paywall and are available via academic libraries that subscribe.
“Paywall” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#paywall across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #paywall 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/paywall