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 ...

Ten years ago today an icon of the social media age was born: the hashtag. The small character, which started life as an organisational tool, has become part of common parlance in the past decade.

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 ...

Today, Twitter is celebrating the 10th birthday of the iconic symbol with #Hashtag10. Let that sink in: The hashtag is 10 years old, which means there is an entire generation of children who will ...

Messina's idea gave new life to the number sign or pound sign as it was once called, positioning the hashtag to become an indelible symbol of the social media world today. Some of the most ...

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 ...

How to shorten references using the hashtag symbol in Microsoft Excel Your email has been sent Referencing can become difficult, especially if you’re using structured referencing. Instead ...

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 ...