Breakinglive

Breaking signals.

Words and phrases that suddenly jump across the open web: at least 5× their usual rate in the last 2 minutes, from many different people, on at least 2 different networks. Every spike is stamped with the second we detected it.

Automated signal, not verified news. A spike means many people are suddenly posting the same words. It can be a real event, a game, a meme or a rumor. Check the linked posts and trusted outlets before you share.

Detector

0posts analyzed

0terms in last 2 min

–last check

Replaying the last 22 minutes of Bluesky to build a baseline…

Confirmed spikes · cross-network

Nothing is spiking across networks right now. That's normal: most minutes, nothing breaks.

Same story, many sources

Automatic grouping, may be imperfect. Who published first and how it spread. All story trails →

Gathering…

Watching · spiking on one network only (unconfirmed)

Nothing yet.

How it works: your browser counts every word, two-word phrase, #hashtag and $cashtag in the streams it hears (Bluesky's full firehose; samples of Nostr, Mastodon, Lemmy and Misskey; new Wikipedia articles; Hacker News; our cached newsroom feeds), per minute, in compact sketches. The last 2 minutes are compared with the ~20 minutes before. Terms carried mostly by one account, or by copies of the same text, are ignored. Common words in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Turkish and Indonesian are skipped. Nothing is sent to us or stored, except the current spike list saved on this device so the main feed can show a badge. Times are your device's local time. See also the live scoreboard and Pulse.