[upbeat music] Whether it's knowing what's trending on Twitter or trying to remember impossibly long wedding hashtags, we can all admit that our favorite little symbol serves an important function ...

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 ...

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 ...

During the past decade, Twitter rendered the "pound sign" obsolete and made the "hashtag" part of our vernacular. The hashtag's uses range from sarcasm and trolling to awareness of social causes.

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 ...

Twitter -- the microblogging platform whose identity is closely intertwined with hashtags and the @ symbol -- is now considering removing those two elements from its service. Vivian Schiller, ...

Yes, it's really been 10 years. Twitter's most iconic feature is celebrating a big birthday today. Exactly 10 years ago, before there were iPhones, Android phones, or a Twitter app, one Twitter ...

According to one New York Times piece, Chris Messina, a Google employee and self-described “hash godfather,” invented the Twitter hashtag in August 2007 after suggesting the pound symbol could ...

who may have a real interest in registering their trademarks with the ‘#’ symbol when it is possible.” With its widespread use on social networks, mainly on Twitter, the hashtag has become a ...