#etching
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #etching from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #etching
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 2026-11-08 02:29 UTC10 uses by 10 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 2026-11-08 02:29 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-08 02:29 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~1373 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 17:00
Languages: English (32) · Dutch (1) · Italian (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1
Top of the latest posts
Lava emerging from Mount Vesuvius at night and running towards Resina, 11 May 1771 (1776–9) by Peter Fabris, from Campi Phlegraei. Source: Wellcome Collection https://pdimagearchive.org/images/0095faaa-1950-4250-b02b-eb5db4647ee0 #volcanoes
This town, is coming like a ghost town… #etching #printmaking
Illustration by Anne Allen, Jean-Baptiste Pillement, from Nouvelle suite de cahiers arabesques chinois a l'usage des dessinateurs et des peintres (ca. 1790s). Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives Available to buy as a print. https://p
What “etching” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediaetching/ˈetʃ.ɪŋ/
- verbTo cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern. Best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards.
- nounThe art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid.
Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In modern manufacturing, other chemicals may be used on other types of material. As a method of printmaking, it is, along with engraving, the most important technique for old master prints, and remains in wide use today. In a number of modern variants such as microfabrication etching and photochemical milling, it is a cru
“Etching” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#etching across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #etching 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/etching