#authorscams
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #authorscams from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #authorscams
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.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-11-15 17:15 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-11-15 17:15 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-15 17:15 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 12 public posts (spanning ~26158 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 12:00
Languages: English (7) · German (5)
Avg boosts / post: 0.5
Top of the latest posts
I sometimes like to give the people pinging me with their "author services" the benefit of the doubt. The attached image is one such conversation in which the person gave me a book marketing pitch (clearly GPT generated) on using book trail
@gluejar The Guardian and others reported about this #scam wave hitting also living authors and publishers. The next step is money. If you answer, more and more of your bandwith will be used by such bots. Those modern "Nigerian Princes" are
It's unbelievable how deep the dark depths of author scamming go. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/nov/01/like-many-authors-im-bombarded-by-scam-fan-mail-i-wasnt-prepared-for-what-would-happen-when-i-wrote-back #author #indieAuthor #s
#authorscams across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #authorscams 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/authorscams