Do you have adblock enabled?
 
If you can read this, either the style sheet didn't load or you have an older browser that doesn't support style sheets. Try clearing your browser cache and refreshing the page.

(Wall Street Journal)   So, who is to blame for creating Twitter hashtags? Finally, we have a name and a face. #TwitterOrigin   (blogs.wsj.com ) divider line
    More: Interesting, Twitter, citizen journalist  
•       •       •

1929 clicks; posted to Geek » on 06 Oct 2013 at 12:27 PM (2 years ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook   more»



26 Comments   (+0 »)
   
View Voting Results: Smartest and Funniest

Archived thread
 
2013-10-06 09:43:03 AM  
Finally, we have a name and a face you love to punch
 
2013-10-06 10:46:53 AM  
#susanalbumparty
 
2013-10-06 10:59:50 AM  
Chris Messina is credited blamed with inventing the hashtag on Twitter.
 
2013-10-06 11:54:50 AM  
I blame Obamacare
 
2013-10-06 12:39:14 PM  
All Twitter accounts are robots.
 
2013-10-06 12:41:05 PM  
It's still a pound symbol to me, damn it!
 
2013-10-06 12:41:48 PM  

Bossk'sSegway: It's still a pound symbol to me, damn it!


Tic-Tac-Dough
 
2013-10-06 12:47:26 PM  
i.imgur.com
 
2013-10-06 12:51:47 PM  
cdn.obsidianportal.com


After him!
 
2013-10-06 01:07:28 PM  
Never used a hashtag, thank god. I'd rather type my thought out and if someone wants to look into the topic more, I am not going to give them links to follow. LMGTFY, maybe, but a hashtag is retarded.

/engaging anti-hipster rage
//engaged
 
2013-10-06 01:11:39 PM  
Hashtags are designed to categorize to link to related content. If your categories are #omgthisonethingthatssouniqueitllneverhappenagain then you fail at categorization. I've seen hashtags used correctly and it's a good thing.
 
2013-10-06 01:23:25 PM  

Frederf: Hashtags are designed to categorize to link to related content. If your categories are #omgthisonethingthatssouniqueitllneverhappenagain then you fail at categorization. I've seen hashtags used correctly and it's a good thing.


This. Commonly used tags are very useful, but overly specific tags NOBODY else will know or use just makes you sound like a douchebag.
 
2013-10-06 01:25:30 PM  
#KickHisAss
 
2013-10-06 01:28:54 PM  
This is what passes for "innovation" these days. When's the Death Asteroid headed this way?
 
2013-10-06 01:48:20 PM  
What's a hashtag. #TwitterVirgin
 
2013-10-06 01:49:06 PM  
That's fine, but we need to figure out who decided that extending them beyond Twitter was an okay thing to do. Those are the people who need to be exposed and beaten.
 
2013-10-06 02:02:25 PM  
Twitter is just IRC with SMS as the transport layer.

And a giant private corporation analyzing and monetizing everything that happens.
 
2013-10-06 02:49:14 PM  
Actually hashtags remind me of a time when Twitter was useful, and the users were discovering ways to use it and the company was modifying itself so the things the users were already doing was easier.

Now we have promoted tweets, retweet bots, and the death of most third party apps. But its people using too long a hash tag that gets us all angry.

#IUseThemWrongAllTheTime
 
2013-10-06 02:55:27 PM  
content.ytmnd.com
 
2013-10-06 04:09:50 PM  
1988 called. /join #whatisirc
 
2013-10-06 05:17:56 PM  
When did the pound sign start being called a hashtag?

DRTFA
 
2013-10-06 05:20:25 PM  

Mad_Radhu: #susanalbumparty


su's anal bum party?
 
2013-10-06 06:03:03 PM  

ThatBillmanGuy: Mad_Radhu: #susanalbumparty

su's anal bum party?


Allow me to elucidate.
 
2013-10-06 06:23:25 PM  
#rm -R
 
2013-10-06 09:36:30 PM  

Parallax: When did the pound sign start being called a hashtag?

DRTFA


In the UK and Ireland, # has generally always been called a hash.  It's a tag that uses the hash mark so hashtag.
 
hej
2013-10-07 08:57:12 AM  

sirrerun: 1988 called. /join #whatisirc


^^^^

/my lawn, get off it
 
Displayed 26 of 26 comments

View Voting Results: Smartest and Funniest


This thread is archived, and closed to new comments.

Continue Farking
Submit a Link »
On Twitter






In Other Media


  1. Links are submitted by members of the Fark community.

  2. When community members submit a link, they also write a custom headline for the story.

  3. Other Farkers comment on the links. This is the number of comments. Click here to read them.

  4. Click here to submit a link.

Report
http://www.fark.com/comments/7963478
www.fark.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2016-22
111460
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:URZBCC2IGJ4EHWLRFQ73APTEL654RVUF
<urn:uuid:8e40a1cd-3196-4c6b-b788-2742349d34cc>
2016-05-27T14:40:03Z
64.191.171.200
sha1:UP7HR6VMCTVBYIXJTJY46HQSN5R7IBJ4
<urn:uuid:05bd5a6d-c8c3-473f-94e1-2a27bc657134>
http://www.fark.com/comments/7963478
length
response
<urn:uuid:2d8b31af-b577-423a-99c4-6c1c0d4df9b0>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2016-22
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for May 2016
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf