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 ...

The hashtag symbol (#) is a way for people on twitter to categorize certain keywords. It not only helps when people are searching for certain trending topics but also displays all the other Tweets ...

Twitter -- the microblogging platform whose identity is closely intertwined with hashtags and the @ symbol -- is now considering removing those two elements from its service. Vivian Schiller, the ...

08:26, Wed, Apr 29, 2020 Updated: 07:30, Thu, Apr 30, 2020 Although hashtags are synonymous with Twitter, they are just as common on other social media sites such as Facebook and Instagram. The ...