#controversial

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

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3
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
3
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
40
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
0.1
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 40
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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 2026-11-08 21:14 UTC
0
11-02
1
11-03
1
11-04
0
11-05
1
11-06
0
11-07
0
11-08

3 uses by 3 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 2026-11-08 21:14 UTC
#controversialfigures
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#controversialremark
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#controversialgoal
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#controversialbeauty
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#controversialvideo
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#controversialjudging
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#controversialtech
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#controversialremarks
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#controversialinolaaluminumsmelter
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#controversialbusiness
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#controversialmarkets
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#controversialpassinterferencecall
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d

Live pulse

measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-08 21:14 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~3855 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 17:00

00:0012:0023:00

Languages: English (36) · Catalan (1) · Spanish (1) · Lithuanian (1)

Avg boosts / post: 0.4

Top of the latest posts

  • #WritingPrompt: #BleatingSheeple ✍️ Long ago, I had a conversation with an exceptional man who believes humans are basically stupid. He said the few smart ones' job is to look out for the rest. The pronouncement made me cringe. Even the sou

    Braye S.@zeugmatisse@mastodon.social♥ 3↻ 22026-06-26 21:42 UTCView post →

  • @Nickiquote #Controversial

    JackTheRebelCat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 🇺🇦@JackTheCat@mastodon.scot♥ 1↻ 02026-11-06 12:39 UTCView post →

  • New #charges against #controversial Polish MEP Grzegorz #Braun https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hBy5_oADevs?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

    rogue_corq@rogue_corq@mas.corq.co♥ 0↻ 02026-11-04 19:46 UTCView post →

What “controversial” means

Wiktionary · Wikipedia

controversial/kɒn.tɹə.ˈvɜː.sjəl/

  • adjectiveArousing controversy—a debate or discussion of opposing opinions.
Full entry on Wiktionary →

Controversy is a state of prolonged public dispute or debate, usually concerning a matter of conflicting opinion or point of view. The word was coined from the Latin controversia, as a derivation of controversus – "turned in an opposite direction", and also means an exercise in legal rhetoric originating in Ancient Greece.

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

#controversial across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #controversial 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.

X (Twitter) ↗Instagram ↗TikTok ↗Facebook ↗LinkedIn ↗YouTube ↗Threads ↗Bluesky ↗Mastodon ↗Reddit ↗Pinterest ↗Tumblr ↗

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/controversial