#zipbombs
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #zipbombs from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #zipbombs
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 · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-11-04 12:49 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-11-04 12:49 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #zipbombs.
Live pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-04 12:49 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 3 public posts (spanning ~1213 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (3)
Avg boosts / post: 4.3
Top of the latest posts
Software dev fortifies his #blog with 'zip bombs' — attacking #bots meet their end with explosive data package #ZipBombs are tiny, compressed archives that hide a massive file size. An egregious example of this type of sneaky file is this 4
#fediverse what did you do? i was reading my site's access logs, as you do, and for some reason in the span of a couple minutes over 800 mastodon instances decided to open my website did someone decide to link it or did some vulnerability s
Another tool for our arsenal of protections against adversarial bots: https://idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-protection #zipbomb #zipbombs #bots #crawlers #aislop #infosec
#zipbombs across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #zipbombs 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/zipbombs