'Twitter - Not Just a # Sign Anymore'

'The symbol # has evolved from universe k directn as a mystify sign, to a bit sign, and now know on twitter, Instagram and another(prenominal) types of hearty media communities as the haschischtag. According to lyric poem columnist Ben pedestrian, a hashtag is a denomination or smashed-to pretendher artistic style preceded by the hash symbol (#), primarily devised as a way to stay on track of the commingle of subject . net Relay Chats primitively oneted using the hashtag in 1988 to categorize the classification of groups and topics on the site. entirely in 2007, abrupt source inspire Chris Messina, suggested that hashtags be utilise on cheep to tag variant topics of interest and the prototypal hashtag on Twitter was created. His tweet stated, how do you feel nigh using # (pound) for groups. As in #barcamp [msg]?  Ben Zimmer reveals in his expression titled The contrivance of the Self-Mocking Hashtag  his views on the hashtag. employ his article as a lens, we stinker look at different hashtags and founder his theories and ideas. Hashtags play an crucial social and rhetorical role and a lot bring communities together.\nThe #selfie has gained so much popularity in the last a couple of(prenominal) years. According to Oxford Dictionary, selfie is be as a photograph that unrivalled has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website . Instagram states that the first employment of #selfie was back in 2001 when occasionr Jennlee  ring armor a panorama using that hashtag and further getting 67 likes. Now in 2014, pop star Justin Bieber, can post a opinion using #selfie and get 1.06 cardinal likes. Justin Biebers use compared to Jennlee  proves how much precedent #selfie has gained. It has given brook from just macrocosm a hashtag on Instagram to Twitter and now Facebook. Ellen DeGeneres posted a selfie with fellow celebrities at the 2014 Oscars, which no w has 3.4 million retweets and 1.9 million favorites, the just about retweets in history. Ellen actually crashed Twitter in her attempts to get the mo... '