The most popular regularly occurring hashtag tradition is #FF, which stands for #FollowFriday and has been used more than half a billion ... phrase preceded by the symbol # that classifies ...

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 ...

Today, Twitter is celebrating the 10th birthday of the iconic symbol with #Hashtag10 ... with more than half a billion uses since January 2009, when it debuted. Hashtags are so powerful that ...

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 ...

Not the actual symbol itself (which is probably ... Aussies alone have tweeted almost half a billion times with hashtags showing the love for homegrown boy band 5 Seconds of Summer.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...