#extortion

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

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8
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
8
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
40
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
0.5
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 · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-11-08 13:34 UTC
0
11-02
3
11-03
2
11-04
0
11-05
2
11-06
0
11-07
1
11-08

8 uses by 8 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 2026-11-08 13:34 UTC

Live pulse

measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-08 13:34 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~871 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 20:00

00:0012:0023:00

Languages: English (39)

Avg boosts / post: 2.1

Top of the latest posts

  • > Google Announces It’s Shutting Off Search Engine Access for Schools That Ban AI https://futurism.com/future-society/google-search-engine-access-schools-ban-ai Google: Be a shame if something happened to that nice school of yours because y

    A. Rivera@bloodravenlib♥ 19↻ 322026-11-03 17:44 UTCView post →
  • The Guardian: My son killed himself after falling victim to an online scam. I heard it happen – and vowed to protect other children. “Gavin Guffey was 17 when he was targeted by a ‘sextortionist’ on Instagram. His father Brandon has spent f

    ResearchBuzz: Firehose@researchbuzz_firehose@rbfirehose.com♥ 1↻ 12026-10-14 20:42 UTCView post →
  • The largest regional healthcare administration system in Colombia appears to have been hacked. Nueva EPS serves about 11.3 million people, and the hacker claims to have data on all of them. They've already leaked data on 30k people after Nu

    Dissent Doe :cupofcoffee:@PogoWasRight@infosec.exchange♥ 1↻ 62026-10-05 18:56 UTCView post →

What “extortion” means

Wiktionary · Wikipedia

extortion/ɪkˈstɔːʃn/

  • nounThe practice of extorting money or other property by the use of force or threats.
Full entry on Wiktionary →

Extortion is the practice of obtaining benefit from an individual or group through coercion, usually by threatening them with future psychological or physical harm. In most jurisdictions it is likely to constitute a criminal offence. Unlike extortion, robbery is the obtaining of goods using immediate personal violence, or the immediate threat of violence, usually in a one-off situation.

“Extortion” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →

#extortion across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #extortion 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/extortion