The hashtag is 12 years old (and no, it was not invented by Twitter)

Today it is the #hashtagday or #DiaDelHashtag. It was the first time that, in a search for organizing tweets, programmer Chris Messina was publishing it trying to see what had happened. "On August 23, 2007, I tweeted it as an" extra idea "in the plan: – Hey guys, what do you think of that? And people responded: – Oh!

At that time, Messina – who had developed tools for Google – had then proposed his idea to Twitter, considering simplifying the lives of users, grouping topics and conversations. But the founders of the social network told him that it was very complicated, that people never use it and that they solve the problem with an algorithm.

The developer did not give up and adopted the hashtag to third party applications to access Twitter, and accepted it. From there, users they adopted it organically and the social network did not have any other choice than to open his arms.

In 2010, he appeared on Instagram, everyone started to clbadify his pictures within the community and it was very clear that it was a very useful way to Organize the content

The hashtag started without even having a link to the list of tweets containing this word. It was not until July 2009 that these hyperlinks were included. One year later, Twitter introduced the hot topics.

Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr, and even YouTube, have adopted the hashtag and are already part of the characteristics of any social network. But although it seems that he has always been there, it is not like that: he is only 12 years old. #FelizCumpleHashtag #TeQweremos