One of the many results of Twitter and its growing popularity was the rise of the hashtag. Twitter infamously helped create the hashtag in 2007, first used by Chris Messina, which changed not just ...

During the past decade, Twitter rendered the "pound sign" obsolete and made the "hashtag" part of our vernacular. The hashtag's uses range from sarcasm and trolling to awareness of social causes.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Bev Gooden, creator of the hashtag #whyIstayed. The hashtag took off in September after the Ray Rice scandal, when many asked why women stay in abusive relationships.

Along with conducting a survey of public attitudes toward political engagement and activism on social media, the Center also performed a separate analysis of several Twitter hashtags. First, it ...

See the full history of the @ reply here. #Hashtags-- Hashtags weren't a part of the original Twitter either. The idea was actually invented in August 2007 by Chris Messina, now a user experience ...

On May 26, 2025, the hashtag #FundKaveriEngine took over X as citizens, defence experts, and aviation enthusiasts united to ...

You may have noticed that Twitter has started hyperlinking hashtags. Those are words preceded by a “#” which denote what the Tweet is about and makes it easier to search for Tweets about ...

On Twitter’s 10-year anniversary, the site published a list of the most used hashtags related to social causes. Two of the top three were directly related to issues of race. According to Twitter, ...

(CBS) - As Twitter explodes with Casey Anthony-related tweets post not-guilty (of murder and manslaughter) verdict, 140-character outbursts of anger surface in droves. With hashtags like # ...

The Twitter hashtag #killallmen, which started trending last May, has finally reached conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. His site, InfoWars, ran a story Monday about how "feminists have ...