#todayinhistory
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #todayinhistory 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 · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-11-08 17:08 UTC11 uses by 11 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-11-08 17:08 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-08 17:08 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~673 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 21:00
Languages: English (38) · German (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.7
Top of the latest posts
#TodayInHistory 1966 – Patrick Volkerding, American computer scientist and engineer, founded #Slackware is born. He is Slackware's "Benevolent Dictator for Life" (BDFL), and is also known informally as "The Man". Slackware aims for design s
kinect turns sixteen; the comet supplied its own special effects November 4: Kinect reaches its sixteenth anniversary, EPOXI visits a very active comet, and Nintendo’s playing-card years stretch much further back than its consoles. https://
venus handled the connection; dorothy took television November 3: Mariner 10 launches toward two planets, The Wizard of Oz reaches television, and Venus takes longer to spin than to finish its year. https://tacobout.online/2026/11/04/a-few-
#todayinhistory across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #todayinhistory 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/todayinhistory