#balk
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #balk 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 2026-09-26 19:11 UTCNo measured public usage for #balk 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 2026-09-26 19:11 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #balk.
Live pulse
measured · Mastodon tag timeline · fetched 2026-09-26 19:11 UTCNo recent public posts found for #balk on Mastodon. Nothing measured, so nothing shown.
What “balk” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediabalk/bɔːk/
- nounAn uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
- verbTo pass over or by.
In baseball, a balk is a set of illegal motions or actions that a pitcher may make. Most of these violations involve pitchers pretending to pitch when they have no intention of doing so. In games played under the Official Baseball Rules that govern professional play in the United States and Canada, as well as NCAA rules governing college baseball, a balk results in a dead ball or delayed dead ball. In certain other circumstances, a balk may be wholly or partially disregarded. In the United State
“Balk” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#balk across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #balk 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/balk