What is the origin of this # mysterious symbol? 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 ...

Ten years ago, the first hashtag came to be, courtesy of Twitter. Did anyone ever expect it would become such a ubiquitous part of our daily conversations or that we would be making the hashtag symbol ...

A post from Google+ Games product manager, Satyajeet Salgar, sparked an interesting discussion revolving around the use of hashtags outside of Twitter. Having already compared the dos and don’ts of ...

First of all, the hashtag has an identity crisis: it’s the phrase following the # (“hash”) symbol, except when you are stuck in someone’s voicemail system. Then it’s called the pound key. Or the ...

The fledgling social media site Twitter was just over a year old on August 23, 2007, when technology developer and self-described “hash godfather” Chris Messina suggested using the pound sign as an ...

The hashtag, a term used widely in social media, has been named as children's 'word of the year'. The University Oxford Press said there had been a huge increase in both the use of the word and the ...

Hashtags: love ‘em or hate ‘em, there’s no denying that they’ve completely changed our culture. From #tbt and #mcm, to #BlackLivesMatter and #NoDAPL, hashtags allow us to collectively gather our ...

In the bid to become the song of the summer, pop artists are using the hashtag symbol to title their songs — from Mariah Carey and Miguel's "#Beautiful" to Busta Rhymes's "#TWERKIT" to Jennifer Lopez ...