#hostages
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #hostages 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 2026-10-09 22:51 UTCNo measured public usage for #hostages 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 2026-10-09 22:51 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #hostages.
Live pulse
measured · Mastodon tag timeline · fetched 2026-10-09 22:51 UTCNo recent public posts found for #hostages on Mastodon. Nothing measured, so nothing shown.
What “hostages” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediahostages
- nounA person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or similar agreement, such as to ensure the status of a vassal.
A hostage is a person seized by an abductor in order to compel another party, one which places a high value on the liberty, well-being and safety of the person seized—such as a relative, employer, law enforcement, or government—to act, or refrain from acting, in a certain way, often under threat of serious physical harm or death to the hostage(s) after expiration of an ultimatum. The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition defines a hostage as "a person who is handed over by one of two belliger
“Hostage” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#hostages across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #hostages 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/hostages