It’s gone by many names, (the pound sign, the number sign, the octothorpe and the hashtag symbol) and it’s had many meanings, but what is the origin of this # mysterious symbol? Well the truth ...

When affixed to a word or phrase, the symbol would serve as a clickable tag. Eventually Twitter (TWTR) came around. That was in 2007. Today, the hashtag has far more reach than just as a ...

So with Twitter in the news, we wondered about one of its most well-known symbols -- the hashtag. A viewer named Valerie asked: How did the pound sign become a hashtag? Hashtags are used on ...

But that’s not the most exciting thing in its announcement. The word hashtag denotes the symbol deployed in front of a word or phrase on social media to loop the post into a wider conversation ...

In other words, they work just like Twitter’s hashtags but are a bit more elegant as they drop the symbol as the prefix. Also unlike X, Threads will only allow one tag on a post at a time — a ...

Meta’s social network Threads got a major update Thursday as the company started rolling out tags (without the hash symbol) on the platform. Users will be able to tag only one topic per post to ...

Let’s start by defining hashtags. A hashtag is a word or phrase preceded by the pound sign (#). Used on social media, hashtags help to categorize content and make it easier to find. They can ...

The history of the hashtag can be traced back to 2007, when Chris Messina suggested the use of a "#" symbol to group similar messages together and asked his friends to give it a try. It caught on ...

The hash symbol – also known as the pound/number sign, or even the octothorp(e) as Macworld reader Keith points out – was one of the more rarely used special characters until Twitter and ...