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  2. Chris Messina (open-source advocate) - Wikipedia

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    Christopher Reaves Messina (born January 7, 1981) is an American blogger, product consultant and speaker who is the inventor of the hashtag as it is currently used on social media platforms. [1] [2] [3] In a 2007 tweet, Messina proposed vertical/associational grouping of messages, trends, and events on Twitter by the means of hashtags. [4]

  3. Twitter - Wikipedia

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    In June 2011, Twitter announced its own integrated photo-sharing service that enables users to upload a photo and attach it to a Tweet right from Twitter.com. Users now also have the ability to add pictures to Twitter's search by adding hashtags to the tweet. Twitter also plans to provide photo galleries designed to gather and syndicate all ...

  4. List of most-retweeted tweets - Wikipedia

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    South Korean band BTS has posted 18 of the 30 most retweeted tweets on X (Twitter). This list contains the top 30 posts with the most reposts/retweets (an account's post that is sent again by additional accounts without any change) on the social networking platform X, formerly known as Twitter. X does not provide an official list but news and ...

  5. Social media and television - Wikipedia

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    Social media and television have a number of connections and interrelationships that have led to the phenomenon of Social Television, which is an emerging communication digital technology that centers around real-time interactivity involving digital media displayed on television. The main idea behind Social Television is to make television ...

  6. Mastodon (social network) - Wikipedia

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    The mascot of the Mastodon social network. Mastodon is free and open-source software for running self-hosted social networking services. [a] It has microblogging features similar to X (formerly Twitter), which are offered by a large number of independently run nodes, known as instances or servers, each with its own code of conduct, terms of ...

  7. Tweet (social media) - Wikipedia

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    Tweet (social media) A user tweeting about bugs. A tweet is a short status update on the social networking site X, which can include images, videos, GIFs, straw polls, hashtags, mentions, and hyperlinks. Around 80% of all tweets are made by 10% of users, averaging 138 tweets per month, with the median user making only two tweets per month.

  8. List of Twitter features - Wikipedia

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    List of Twitter features. Twitter, officially known as X since July 2023, is an American microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known historically and commonly as "tweets". Registered users can post, like and retweet tweets, and read those that are publicly available.

  9. Internet activism - Wikipedia

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    Internet activism. Internet activism [a] involves the use of electronic-communication technologies such as social media, e-mail, and podcasts for various forms of activism to enable faster and more effective communication by citizen movements, the delivery of particular information to large and specific audiences, as well as coordination.