#APCs
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #APCs from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #apcs
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 · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-21 15:48 UTC2 uses by 2 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 2026-10-21 15:48 UTCLive pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-21 15:48 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~7648 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 13:00
Languages: English (40)
Avg boosts / post: 7.5
Top of the latest posts
Watching with interest: "Federal lawsuit accuses four major publishers of extorting article processing charges." https://retractionwatch.com/2026/07/31/federal-lawsuit-major-publishers-article-processing-charges-false-claims-act/ "A lawsuit
1/ #SpringerNature just published a report showing certain download and citation benefits of "gold" #OpenAccess. (I'm linking to the executive summary.) https://stories.springernature.com/from-access-to-impact-open-access-research/executive
2/ Footnote on the terminology problem. You've probably heard me say many times that the term "gold OA" original referred to #OpenAccess delivered by #journals, regardless of the journal's business model, as opposed to "green OA", which was
#apcs across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #apcs 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/apcs