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Happy 10th Anniversary To The #Hashtag
- Fast Company, Friday, August 25, 2017 7:10 AM
One of the defining things about Twitter has always been the degree to which its own users have shaped the service. And 10 years ago today, a Twitter user named Chris Messina proposed a new way to make it easier to find tweets about a given topic. He suggested marking keywords with a pound sign—a convention that quickly caught on and became known as the hashtag.
