What does backslashes mean?

backslashes (noun): The punctuation mark \. As a hashtag, #backslashes carries this topic across social platforms.

How popular is #backslashes?

#backslashes has no measured public activity on the open social web in the last 7 days. It is currently wide open.

What hashtags are related to #backslashes?

No related hashtags with measured usage were found for #backslashes.

How much does it cost to own #backslashes?

#backslashes is available as a #name from $10.85 per year. You can claim it by card at https://hashtag.org/checkout/portal-name?name=backslashes or with tokens on hashtag.space at https://hashtag.space/#backslashes.

#backslashes

Name: #backslashes — a #name on hashtag.org
Brand: hashtag.org
Price: 10.85 USD
Availability: InStock

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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Own #backslashes

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.

$10.85/ year · 11-character #name

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Day-by-day usage

measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-08 21:51 UTC

No measured public usage for #backslashes 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 21:51 UTC

No related tags with measured usage found for #backslashes.

Live pulse

measured · Mastodon tag timeline · fetched 2026-10-08 21:51 UTC

No recent public posts found for #backslashes on Mastodon. Nothing measured, so nothing shown.

What “backslashes” means

Wiktionary · Wikipedia

backslashes

nounThe punctuation mark \.

Full entry on Wiktionary →

The 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.

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#backslashes across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #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.

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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