23-08-2017 19:04 via theguardian.com

#Hashtag10: the best hashtag fails in a decade

The ‘funny little hack’ started a decade ago with #barcamp, and now 125m of them are shared daily on Twitter alone – but not without a few misfiresThe hashtag turns 10 today, and its inventor, Chris Messina – aka user no 1186 on Twitter – has explained how a small group of early Twitter users wanted to make conversations easier to follow. Related: Obama's anti-racism tweet after Charlottesville is most liked ever on TwitterContinue reading...
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