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Word of The Day: Hashtag

August 23, 2017August 23, 2017Niall O'Donnell 17 Comments

Happy Birthday Hashtag.

The symbol’s now been in use for ten years on Twitter. It’s changed the way we communicate online a lot, allowing us to condense complex messages into simple phrases, and has now spread beyond Twitter. It only took me about nine of those ten years to figure out how to use them. And even now I’m not entirely convinced I’m doing it right.

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