#public
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #public from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #public
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 · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-08 23:27 UTCNo measured public usage for #public 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 23:27 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #public.
Live pulse
measured · Mastodon tag timeline · fetched 2026-10-08 23:27 UTCNo recent public posts found for #public on Mastodon. Nothing measured, so nothing shown.
What “public” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediapublic/ˈpʌblɪk/
- nounThe people in general, regardless of membership of any particular group.
- adjectiveAble to be seen or known by everyone; open to general view, happening without concealment.
In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the Öffentlichkeit or public sphere.
“Public” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#public across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #public 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/public