WOW.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Hashtag - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashtag

    Organized real-world events have used hashtags and ad hoc lists for discussion and promotion among participants. Hashtags are used as beacons by event participants to find each other, both on Twitter and, in many cases, during actual physical events.

  3. Hashtag activism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashtag_activism

    The hashtags, while originally used to point out problematic portrayals of deaf characters and sign language in the media, are now also used to celebrate the wide breadth and multiplicity of deaf actors, artists, and other talent in the world." The hashtag, #Boymom, has taken to social media platforms in order to display the so-called "chaotic ...

  4. Tag (metadata) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_(metadata)

    A hashtag is a kind of metadata tag marked by the prefix #, sometimes known as a "hash" symbol. This form of tagging is used on microblogging and social networking services such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+, VK and Instagram. The hash is used to distinguish tag text, as distinct, from other text in the post.

  5. Internet activism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_activism

    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.

  6. Instagram - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram

    v. t. e. Instagram [a] is a photo and video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. It allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters, be organized by hashtags, and be associated with a location via geographical tagging. Posts can be shared publicly or with preapproved followers.

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

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Messina_(open-source...

    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]

  8. Black Twitter - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Twitter

    The hashtag became the number one trending topic in the world overnight and was ultimately named the most influential hashtag of 2014 by Time magazine. This was a direct criticism of the way Black victims of police violence were portrayed in media, with the assassination of their characters as a result of the choices of images used to depict them.

  9. They compete in real life and on reality TV. Married couple ...

    www.aol.com/compete-real-life-reality-tv...

    In real life, the couple bids against each other for clients, which is the premise of the new HGTV docuseries "Divided By Design." Episodes were filmed in late 2023.