The # symbol is the pound sign (as in 5# of meat) or the number sign (as in #5). The first time I heard the word "hashtag" was on a TV car commercial. The person in the ad was a young female adult who ...
Andreea S. Calude receives funding from The Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Grant Fund. David Trye receives funding from the University of Waikato PhD Doctoral Scholarship. University of Waikato ...
The Word of the Year is one that is rarely spoken. The word “hashtag” — the act of using a pound sign (#) followed by a word or phrase to tag a message on Twitter — was dubbed “Word of the Year 2012” ...