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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 Twitter or Tumblr as a form of user-generated tagging that enables cross-referencing of content by topic or theme. [1]
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]
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]
Twitter's makeover comes less than a year after Musk completed his $44 billion acquisition of the social media company last fall, which placed the business in one of Musk's holding companies, X ...
Elon Musk’s rebranding of Twitter is off to a rocky start. On Sunday, the eccentric billionaire announced the rebrand of the company formerly known as Twitter — which he purchased in October ...
Twitter owner Elon Musk said early Sunday that the social media platform would soon change its brand to incorporate an “X” in the logo and to eliminate all “all the birds.” “[S]oon we ...
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This list contains the top 50 accounts with the most followers on the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter). Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Cristiano Ronaldo, Justin Bieber, Rihanna and Katy Perry top the list, with over 100 million ...
Twitter trends. On X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, a word, phrase, or topic that is mentioned at a greater rate than others is said to be a "trending topic" or simply a "trend". Trending topics become popular either through a concerted effort by users or because of an event that prompts people to talk about a specific topic.