#swiftboating

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

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0
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
0
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
24
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 24
0.4
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 24
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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 2026-11-03 13:58 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 · mastodon.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-11-03 13:58 UTC

Live pulse

measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-03 13:58 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 24 public posts (spanning ~5057 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 14:00

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Languages: English (24)

Avg boosts / post: 5

Top of the latest posts

  • "The swiftboating of Walz is sick, inacurate, and will fail. Weak men attack stronger men to make themselves feel better." ~ Adam Kinzinger #JDVance #TimWalz #swiftboating #media /13 https://adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-swiftboating-of-

    William Lindsey :toad:@[email protected]♥ 3↻ 212024-08-09 14:38 UTCView post →
  • As David Kurtz's headline for his morning memo at TPM today says, "20 Years Later, Political Press Still Falls Hard For Swift Boat Attacks Will They Never Learn?" He's talking about the swift boating (i.e., lying) campaign J.D. Vance has mo

    William Lindsey :toad:@[email protected]♥ 3↻ 92024-08-08 14:47 UTCView post →
  • 'Vance’s opposition to support for Ukraine, in support of which the trained propagandist adopts Russian propaganda, is one of the things that made Trump a fan. And it led him to vote against funding for the military — something that the ant

    William Lindsey :toad:@[email protected]♥ 1↻ 112024-08-08 22:32 UTCView post →

What “swiftboating” means

Wikipedia

The term swiftboating, also swift-boating or swift boating, is a pejorative American neologism used to describe an unfair or untrue political attack. The term is derived from Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (SBVT), the third-party organization responsible for a widely publicized—and later discredited—political smear campaign against the 2004 Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. Since the 2004 United States presidential election, the term has been commonly applied to a political attack tha

“Swiftboating” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →

#swiftboating across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #swiftboating 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/swiftboating