#whales

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

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34
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
29
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
40
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0.2/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
0.1
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 04:42 UTC
7
11-02
2
11-03
4
11-04
8
11-05
8
11-06
5
11-07
0
11-08

34 uses by 29 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 04:42 UTC

Live pulse

measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-08 04:42 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~208 hours).

Top of the latest posts

  • Whales and record entanglements "The number of whale entanglements has risen by 20%, from about 50 in 2025 to nearly 60 this year. Whales can get entangled in man-made materials floating in the ocean, such as fishing gear and shark nets." >

    BellingenNSW@Bellingen@mastodon.au♥ 1↻ 32026-11-02 21:37 UTCView post →
  • 🐋 What if we're missing signals because we're listening in the wrong places? Humpback whales don't just sing underwater. They also produce unusual sounds above the surface, including a low-frequency rumble called the “thrum.” Researchers a

    SETI Institute@setiinstitute@mastodon.social♥ 1↻ 112026-11-02 00:00 UTCView post →
  • Sperm Whale off Coast of New Zealand Shot on Canon Mark III #newzealand #whales #whalewatching #ballenas #whaletour #kaikoura #pacificocean #sealife #traveltheworld #travel #travelphotography #WildLifePhotography #saveourearth #oceana #ocea

    kellyelizabethart@kellyelizabethart@pixelfed.social♥ 0↻ 12026-11-07 21:19 UTCView post →

What “whales” means

Wiktionary · Wikipedia

whales/hweɪlz/

  • nounAny of several species of large sea mammals of the infraorder Cetacea.
  • verbTo hunt for whales.
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Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals. As an informal and colloquial grouping, they correspond to large members of the infraorder Cetacea, i.e. all cetaceans apart from dolphins and porpoises. Dolphins and porpoises may be considered whales from a formal, cladistic perspective. Whales, dolphins and porpoises belong to the order Cetartiodactyla, which consists of even-toed ungulates. Their closest non-cetacean living relatives are the hippopot

“Whale” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →

#whales across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #whales 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/whales