#viewbotting

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

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0
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
0
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
3
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 3
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Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 3
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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 2026-11-09 02:50 UTC
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11-03
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11-04
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11-06
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0 uses by 0 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 2026-11-09 02:50 UTC

No related tags with measured usage found for #viewbotting.

Live pulse

measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-09 02:50 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 3 public posts (spanning ~8167 hours).

Top of the latest posts

  • Mashable: Spotify deletes 500K streams of popular song for suspected Kalshi, Polymarket user manipulation. “Last week, Kalshi gave Todd a 2.5 percent chance of having the number one charting Spotify song by the end of June. Earlier this wee

    ResearchBuzz: Firehose@researchbuzz_firehose@rbfirehose.com♥ 0↻ 12026-07-04 17:08 UTCView post →
  • Tubefilter: As Twitch tries to crack down on viewbots, they are becoming more common on Kick. “During Q2 2025, more than 16% of Kick channels with at least 50 average quarterly viewers were suspected viewbotters, Streams Charts found. While

    ResearchBuzz: Firehose@researchbuzz_firehose@rbfirehose.com♥ 0↻ 02025-09-30 09:03 UTCView post →
  • Twitch geht gezielt gegen Fake-Zuschauer und Viewbotting vor Twitch hat seine Erkennungssysteme für manipulierte Zuschauerzahlen deutlich verschärft. Mit neuen technischen Maßnahmen https://xboxdev.com/twitch-geht-gezielt-gegen-fake-zuschau

    XboxDev@xboxdev@toad.social♥ 0↻ 02025-07-29 10:06 UTCView post →

What “viewbotting” means

Wikipedia

A viewbot is an automated software script used to artificially inflate the view count of live streams or videos, often with the intent to mislead audiences and advertisers about a content creator’s popularity. Tools such as a Kick View Bot are specifically designed for platforms like Kick, enabling users to generate fake engagement and create the illusion of a larger audience. Digital media scholars have compared this practice to placing “mannequins” around a carnival ride; the artificial crowd

“Viewbot” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →

#viewbotting across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #viewbotting 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/viewbotting