Accusations about anti-Semitism at Occupy Wall Street took a turn for the ridiculous this week when a blogger for the right-wing site Pajamas Media wrote that the hashtag symbol worn by many ...

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 ...

Back in 2007, Twitter user @chrismessina thought the hashtag would be a good way to make groups. He originally tweeted #barcamp - an international network of user-generated conferences primarily ...

A new mother on Facebook has caused controversy after she apparently named her baby daughter after the Twitter symbol Hashtag. Did a mother really name her newborn daughter Hashtag? (Picture: Facebook ...

First there was a “Facebook.” Then there was a “Like.” And now there’s a “Hashtag.” A baby named Hashtag, that is. My fiance often likes to tease me for my twitter addiction. I’m pretty sure he almost ...

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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 ...

It’s 10 years since it was first used to tag or categorise a tweet (Picture: Metro/MylesGoode) Former Google and Uber engineer Chris Messina first used the symbol as a way of tagging or categorising a ...