Hashtag Day: The Story of the Symbol That Changed Social Media · Global Voices

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For years, it was one of the undisputed symbols of social media, but algorithms, personalized recommendations, and new ways of searching for content have diminished some of the prominence it enjoyed in its early days. This August 23rd, International Hashtag Day, reminded us that 19 years have passed since Chris Messina proposed using the # symbol to group conversations on Twitter, now known as X. Almost two decades later, and with very different…

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On August 23, 2007, we were born on Twitter (now X) what we know today with the name of hashtag, but it was not until 2018 that the famous social network decreed that every August 23 from that moment onwards the International Day of the Hashtag would be commemorated digitally. The curious thing is that the hashtag was not an idea conceived by the creators of Twitter, but an original action from a user, Chris Messina, who shared a message that in…

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The hashtag became an indispensable tool of social networks, but its origin is related to a proposal to organize conversations on the internet.

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Every August 23rd remembers the birth of the hashtag on Twitter. What started as a proposal to order conversations ended up becoming one of the most recognizable tools on the internet, although almost two decades later its weight on social networks has begun to change.