Comment on When did the world change to the so called hashtag? When I was younger it was only the pound sign. So hashtag Taylor Swift still reads in my mind pound Taylor Swift?

4am@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

The symbol # is a “hash”. The “tag” Is the word that follows.

The hash exists as a signal to a computer program indexing posts by topic that the following characters before the next whitespace are meant to signify a tagging of a topic. Twitter started doing this a long time ago, to give users a way to categorize their posts by topic without needing a separate interface. (Did you know that the original 140 character tweet length was so it could fit in a single SMS message? Twitter used to be operable over text message)

So it’s not a “hashtag” without the hash and the tag. #TIL

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