#tao
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #tao from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #tao
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 04:42 UTC5 uses by 5 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 04:42 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-08 04:42 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~973 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 14:00
Languages: English (24) · Spanish (5) · French (2) · Italian (1) · Japanese (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.7
Top of the latest posts
“The good of giving is magnanimity; of speaking, honesty; of government, order. The good of work is skill, and of action, timing. No competition, so no blame.” — Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way by Ursula
My grandfather didn’t know he was a Taoist. He had fished the river Awe for sixty years. Life is sensed as a flowing movement, a power like wind or water. When he cast, it was the bank that moved, not the river… —Lorn Macintyre, “Satori” fr
The rich have so many cares they can't just acquiesce their granary rice might be bright red they still won't loan out a peck their reveries turn to guile they pick through silk for the best whenever their final day arrives the mourners wil
What “tao” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediatao/daʊ/
- proper nounIn Taoism, The Way, specifically the transcendental basis of nature and, and/or the ideal way to live one's life.
- nounThe act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution
The Tao or Dao is the source and fundamental principle of the universe, primarily as conceived in East Asian philosophy and religions. The concept is represented by the Chinese character 道, which has meanings including 'way', 'path', 'road', and sometimes 'doctrine' or 'principle'.
“Tao” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#tao across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #tao 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/tao