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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. Social media - Wikipedia

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    Hashtags can be used when people want to advocate for a movement, store content or tweets from a movement for future use, and allow other social media users to contribute to a discussion about a certain movement by using existing hashtags. Using hashtags as a way to advocate for something online makes it easier and more accessible for more ...

  4. Tag (metadata) - Wikipedia

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    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. Hashtag - Wikipedia

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    Hashtag. A post on the social media platform Twitter. Several hashtags are used in this post, including "CCCCWI", "TeamRhetoric" and "AcademicTwitter". A hashtag is a metadata tag that is prefaced by the hash symbol, #. On social media, hashtags are used on microblogging and photo-sharing services such as X (formerly Twitter) or Tumblr as a ...

  6. List of Twitter features - Wikipedia

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    List of Twitter features. X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, 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.

  7. Hashtag activism - Wikipedia

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    Twitter's initial response to the use of the hashtag for such purposes was negative. The social media site posted that "these things were for nerds" [7] but later that year saw the impact with use of the #sandiegofire which allowed users to track content related to the fire, the safety of loved ones, and general updates.

  8. Twitter - Wikipedia

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    X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social media website based in the United States. With over 500 million users, it is one of the world's largest social networks and the fifth-most visited website in the world. [4] [5] Users can share text messages, images, and videos through posts (originally called "tweets"). [6]

  9. Threads (social network) - Wikipedia

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    Threads is an online social media and social networking service operated by Meta Platforms.The app offers users the ability to post and share text, images, and videos, as well as interact with other users' posts through replies, reposts, and likes.