What is the origin of this # mysterious symbol? It’s gone by many names, (the pound sign, the number sign, the octothorpe and the hashtag symbol) and it’s had many meanings, but what is the origin of ...
Politicians and political watchers alike are trying to capitalize on Twitter's once straightfoward hashtag symbol. In a fun essay at TheAtlantic.com, Nancy Scola notes that the hashtag (the # symbol) ...
The fledgling social media site Twitter was just over a year old on August 23, 2007, when technology developer and self-described “hash godfather” Chris Messina suggested using the pound sign as an ...
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