The hashtag was born on IRC networks before migrating to Twitter and evolving into something that people verbalised ("hashtag fail"). Now some factions are trying to turn it into a gestural expression ...
The hashtag has long been used in information technology to highlight special meaning. It was eventually used in Internet Relay Chat to label groups and topics. With the advent of social media, the ...
The hashtag symbol, or #, has recently been named the UK’s children’s word of the year. See coverage of this story here. Children’s dictionary writers at Oxford University Press analysed 120,421 ...
We’re officially in the era of too many hashtags. Nearly three-quarters of social media users stick them in posts, according to a March 2013 study from RadiumOne. But quickly scan Twitter, Instagram, ...
The #BringBackOurGirls hashtag movement, which is intended to pressure the Nigerian government to accelerate efforts to rescue more than 250 girls captured by Boko Haram, has somehow resurfaced a ...
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