Talk:Hashtag

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Jaiku

This article is also missing any mention of Jaiku. Jaiku originally had channels that were marked by the pound sign. You could actually send a Jaiku to a channel and it would not show up in your stream. Of course, that came from other systems that used pound signs before it, but the idea of grouping together social media ideas around a certain meta concept started at Jaiku. Twitter users that were frustrated that Twitter wouldn't add the channel feature decided to advocate for the hashtag. And this all happened well before Chris Messina's tweet in Aug 2007, but if I remember correctly, that Tweet was the one that rallied most people around the pound sign versus the other suggestions that were out there. grandeped (talk) 04:14, 03 Jul 2014 (UTC)

Curious about #bluesky

When I saw #bluesky mentioned in the intro, I thought it was a reference to the new social media platform, which I found strange. However, the Wayback Machine shows #bluesky mentioned atleast as early as 2016 (3 years before Twitter started the first BlueSky project). Anyone know if this is just a coincidence, or if there's some sort of reason for this early connection? 141.165.240.97 (talk) 14:21, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

Also, to clarify, I'd think others likely would make the connection, so a more neutral example from the past, like "#Wikipedia is an #encyclopedia" would be preferable in my eyes for the article. Not mentioning BlueSky would prevent the assumption that it was added as a reference. However, if #bluesky is already neutral in a way I don't realize, then that'd be great to know. 141.165.240.97 (talk) 14:26, 1 November 2024 (UTC)