#backslashes
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #backslashes 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 · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-12 20:18 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-12 20:18 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #backslashes.
Live pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-12 20:18 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 3 public posts (spanning ~7465 hours).
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Languages: English (3)
Avg boosts / post: 0.3
Top of the latest posts
@timbray here is a totally different idea to address this: there are programmer’s fonts like #FiraCode that use ligatures to render multi-character sequences as more readable glyphs, e.g. “<=“ as “≤” or “->” as an arrow. Maybe such a font c
Began learning #backslashes at the #skatepark this weekend; got them solid today.
Let's play Unpopular Opinions! 🎸 @jerod says backslashes are the worst. They disgust him and they're probably to blame for keeping him off Windows computers 🔥 🎥 Explainer ~> https://youtube.com/shorts/Gxjd26O3eMQ Do you agree with him? V
What “backslashes” means
Wiktionary · WikipediaThe backslash \ is a typographical mark used mainly in computing and mathematics. It is the mirror image of the common slash ('solidus'), /. It is a relatively recent mark, first documented in the 1930s. It is sometimes called a hack, whack, escape, reverse slash, slosh, backslant, backwhack, bash, reverse slant, reverse solidus, and reversed virgule.
“Backslash” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#backslashes across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #backslashes 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/backslashes