It was a decade ago today that the hashtag was born. According to The Telegraph, credited with the invention of the # is former Google and Uber designer Chris Messina. Twitter had already been around for a year. Messina was the 1,186th user of Twitter when he “posted a message asking fellow users what they thought about using the hashtag to collate people and messages”, states the story.
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Happy Birthday to the Hashtag
Happy Birthday to the Hashtag
This entry was written by Dean Goldman, posted on August 23, 2017 at 9:19 am, filed under Hashtag and tagged #, Chris Messina, Google+, Hashtag, The Telegraph, Twitter, Uber.
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