Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “How Did Hashtags Become So Popular?”.
Thanks for watching tech, quickie click the subscribe button and enable notifications with the bell icon, so you won’t miss any future videos. So what do you call this symbol? Pound sign number sign gate sharp octothorpe. Well, while none of these are incorrect, many people these days have gotten into the habit of calling it a hash sign or a hash tag, after all those little identifiers to see all over Twitter, Instagram and other social media services. But why a hash symbol instead of something else well, it turns out that shift 3 has been in use in the tech world for a long time, if you’re a coder, you might know that it indicates something that should happen before the program is compiled if you’re Using the programming language C, which has been around since the 1970s and even if you’re, not a coder, you still might encounter them hash.
Symbols were used to designate channels in the popular chat service, IRC, meaning hash tag. Sports would be maybe a good place to argue with football fans, and this paradigm has also carried through to more modern chat platforms such as discord and slack. It was actually this method of organizing chat rooms that gave one early adopter of Twitter.
The idea to use the same symbol to make it easy for users to search for all the tweets related to a particular topic and thus, in 2007 the modern hashtag was born. Now the feature had no official support from Twitter, but the site was fast becoming known as a place for up to the second news, which made the hashtag a natural and useful complement to the posting style of many users, especially when they were commenting on quickly. Developing current events, and so by the summer of 2009 hashtags have become so popular that Twitter turned all hashtags into hyperlinks and heavily used hashtags in this trending feature that debuted in 2010 cementing their role as a topic identifier for what was currently popular and as other Sites also look to become sources of trending news and discussion. The hashtag found new homes on Instagram in 2011, Facebook in 2013 and YouTube in 2016, though you should bear in mind the hashtags don’t function identically across sites, in that some special characters will break a hashtag on some size, but not on others.
Just make sure that whatever you do, you don’t include any basis and to add even more effectiveness to the concept of a hashtag indicating a specific topic. Many organizations, events, sports teams, political movements, etc have attempted to promote specific official hashtags for their followers to use to help them gain more visibility on social media or to help organize tweets for things like Q. .