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 ...

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 ...