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CT:A hashtag is the pound sign. The sharp note in musical notation. A tic tac toe board. This: #. When it comes to social media, the hashtag is used to draw attention, organize, promote, and connect. They got their start on Twitter as a way of making it easier for people to find, follow, and contribute to a conversation.While they originated on Twitter, hashtags have now become an integral part of almost every social media platform today. You don’t need any special software, coding experience, or a college degree to create a hashtag. The only thing you need to do is put the pound sign directly in front of the word or phrase you want to turn into a hashtag and follow these simple rules:
- No spaces
- No punctuation
- No special characters
S: Flyte – https://www.takeflyte.com/blog/hashtags-explained#what (last access: 27 January 2o21).
N: 1. From earlier hash tag, from hash (sign) + tag. The hash sign (#) was initially proposed as tag hash by Chris Messina to create groups on Twitter, modeled after the IRC channel prefix. First published use as hash tag by Stowe Boyd in 2007.
2. Social media has made the hashtag a ubiquitous part of Internet culture, starting with Twitter and expanding to other sites. Originally designed for categorizing posts, the hashtag can now be a tool for a supplementary coy or witty comment (e.g., #awkward). The word tag can mean “a word or phrase used for description or identification.” Hash is short for hash mark, a term for what we more commonly call a pound sign (and, less commonly, an octothorp). The hash in hash mark is probably an alteration of hatch, a term for the crisscrossing of lines (as when adding shading to a drawing).
3. A keyword, a keyword string or a theme preceded by the pound or number sign and used to index and categorize content.
4. For example, hashtags gained prominence in Twitter as a way of associating tweets to topics.
5. hashtag: term used in the context of the Blueprint 2020 vision of the Government of Canada.
S: 1. Wiktio – https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hashtag#:~:text=English-,Etymology,by%20Stowe%20Boyd%20in%202007 (last access: 27 January 2o21). 2. MW – https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hashtag (last access: 27 January 2o21). 3 to 5. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=hashtag&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 27 January 2021).
OV: hash tag
S: TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=hashtag&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 27 January 2021)
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