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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]
Tweet (social media) A tweet is a former name for a post on social networking service X (formerly Twitter). It is a short status update which can include images, videos, GIFs, straw polls, hashtags, mentions, and hyperlinks. Around 80% of all posts are made by 10% of users, averaging 138 posts per month, with the median user making only two ...
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 ...
From #BlackLivesMatter to #TheDress, relive the topics that captured global attention and sparked international debate on Twitter in 2015. This year on Twitter: Top hashtags, tweets and emojis ...
On Twitter, the hashtag #ShoutYourAdoption was created in response to #ShoutYourAbortion, to promote adoption instead of abortion. [26] [31] In response to online criticism, actress Martha Plimpton , co-founder of the abortion rights organization "A is for" created a " Mean Tweets " style video along with comedian Margaret Cho and other ...
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 ...
A Twitter bot (or X bot) is a type of software bot that controls a Twitter account via the Twitter API. The social bot software may autonomously perform actions such as tweeting, retweeting, liking, following, unfollowing, or direct messaging other accounts. [2]
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] For example, a search within Instagram for the hashtag #bluesky returns ...