#initials
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #initials from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-11-08 05:52 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
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measured · mas.to (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-11-08 05:52 UTCLive pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-08 05:52 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 24 public posts (spanning ~33092 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 19:00
Languages: English (23) · Russian (1)
Avg boosts / post: 2.3
Top of the latest posts
Keeping my hand in... #lettercutting #initials #pebbles #lettercarver
Illustration by Ernst Schneidler, from Deutsche Märchen seit Grimm (1919). Source: University of Connecticut Libraries / Internet Archive https://pdimagearchive.org/images/a9215283-c8af-4df1-8ce6-67489073f37a #initials #typography #design #
The #initials in this #eighth-century copy of Pliny from the British Isles are stupendous. The one with the white line down the middle would have taken forever to do: the white line is achieved by filling in the brown colour on either side.
What “initials” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediainitials
- nounThe first letter of a word or a name.
- nounAn abbreviation of a person's name, constructed by taking the initial letters of first, last, and sometimes middle name(s). See monogram
In a written or published work, an initial is a letter at the beginning of a word, a chapter, or a paragraph that is larger than the rest of the text. The word is derived from Latin: initiālis, which means of the beginning. An initial is often several lines in height, and, in older books or manuscripts, may take the form of an inhabited or historiated initial. There are certain important initials, such as the Beatus initial, or B, of Beatus vir... at the opening of Psalm 1 at the start of a Vulg
“Initial” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#initials across platforms
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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/initials