hat tip


Author(s):

Chris Messina

 

In 140 characters:

"hat tip" is a slashtag that is similar in purpose to thx or via. The short form version is simply "ht".

 

Description:

"hat tip" is a polite way to give credit to someone for some hint, tip, piece of news, or other piece of useful information.

 

Matt Mullenweg 

 

Examples

Twitter / Chris Thomson: Nice to know the retweet r ...

 

Twitter / Sphere: Rudy's...yum (hat tip to @ ...

 

This is using the short form of hat tip (HT or ht):

 

Twitter / Stephen Collins: RT @stilgherrian: An Austr ...

 

Here is the lowercase version of the hat tip slashtag:

 

Twitter / Franz Hartl: My BC/Fordham Guy Tom Suoz ...


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