Enter the hashtag you want to search across Mastodon (don’t include the #) and click the Submit button. The Instances.Social API will be queried to find the top 100 instances with more than 1000 users and those instances will be queried for your hashtags. Results will (sometimes) be returned in…
MastoTrends does a search of Instances.Social for up to 500 instances with at least 1000 active users, selects ten of them at random, and fetches their trending link lists. Take a peek at what’s hot around the Fedi. (It might take a moment to load if it’s pulling a lot…
Gossip Machine v2 finds high interest days for Wikipedia articles and turns them into Google News searches. Enter the name of the Wikipedia article you want to check, along with the year and the month you want to check. (Wikipedia did not start keeping page views until late 2015, so…
Google News Timeline Template creates a series of date-based Google News searches for a single query. Enter the query you want to search on Google News and the date ranges you want to search, separated by comma. GNTT will generate a list of Google News links which open in a…
Wondering what the wildfire smoke situation is like around the United States? Enter a city and state (state should be a two-letter postal code — NC, VA, GA, etc) and AQTweet Tracker will translate them to lat/long and open a Twitter search of that area with air-quality related query words.…