#beacons
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #beacons 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 · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-08 22:40 UTCNo measured public usage for #beacons in the last 7 days. That is a real result, and a good one to know: this hashtag is wide open right now. We show a dash before we ever show a made-up number. Browse the trending index for tags with live measurements.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-08 22:40 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-08 22:40 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~48484 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 10:00
Languages: English (31) · German (4) · Turkish (2) · Russian (2) · Polish (1)
Avg boosts / post: 3.4
Top of the latest posts
Traveling to #FOSDEM? Do not forget to collect antennas, and #wifi points for @beacondb! Read here how to do that: https://beacondb.net/ And, let's make #Brussels the city with most #geolocation measurements the coming days. #opensource #FO
The #beacons are lit! Sol Invictus calls for aid! Seen on a great 20 mile #walk with the @Metwalkers passing the Long Man of Wilmington, the Litlington White Horse, then this whilst heading down into #Seaford. #sun #sea #sunstar #photograph
For #SilentSunday - my favourite photo ever taken in the Brecon Beacons. I was alone, and totally in love. The entire landscape changed colours every few minutes as the peaks drifted in and out of thick cloud. This was my favourite mood on
What “beacons” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediabeacons/ˈbiːkənz/
- nounA signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning.
- verbTo act as a beacon.
A beacon is an intentionally conspicuous device designed to attract attention to a specific location. A common example is the lighthouse, which draws attention to a fixed point that can be used to navigate around obstacles or into port. More modern examples include a variety of radio beacons that can be read on radio direction finders in all weather, and radar transponders that appear on radar displays.
“Beacon” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#beacons across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #beacons 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/beacons