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

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    The use of hashtags itself then eventually spread on Twitter, and by the end of the decade could be seen in most social media platforms including Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and YouTube, so much so that Instagram had to officially place a "30 hashtags" limit on its posts to prevent people from abusing the use of hashtags.

  3. Tweet (social media) - Wikipedia

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    A tweet is a short status update on the social networking site Twitter (and it's successor, X, under post), 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.

  4. Hashtag activism - Wikipedia

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    Hashtag activism refers to the use of Twitter 's hashtags for Internet activism. [1] The hashtag has become one of the many ways that social media contributes to civic engagement and social movements. [2] The use of the hashtag on social media provides users with an opportunity to share information and opinions about social issues in a way that ...

  5. Twitter usage - Wikipedia

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    Twitter was viewed as a supplement to practice different aspects of the target language in authentic environment. [17] Mia Moody states that Twitter can be used to teach students. [citation needed] They will be more involved in lectures and lessons if they have a chance to use social media throughout the course.

  6. 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 Twitter or Tumblr as a form of user ...

  7. Social media and television - Wikipedia

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    People often use social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to interact with and discuss sports. Technology is now so advanced that people no longer have to watch the game live on television. For example, there are apps, like ESPN, that will send users updates on the teams of their choice.

  8. Black Twitter - Wikipedia

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    Like all cultural groups, Black Twitter is dynamic, containing a variety of viewpoints and identities. We think of Black Twitter as a social construct created by a self-selecting community of users to describe aspects of black American society through their use of the Twitter platform. Not everyone on Black Twitter is black, and not everyone ...

  9. Facebook Launches Hashtags - AOL

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    Facebook says the move is an effort to promote more public conversations on the social network, after hashtags have become increasingly popular on Twitter. The Facebook Launches Hashtags