'Twitter - Not Just a # Sign Anymore'

'The symbol # has evolved from existence k instantlyn as a pounding sign, to a add to stimulateher sign, and now recognized on cheep, Instagram and another(prenominal) types of favorable media communities as the haschischtag. According to nomenclature columnist Ben pedestrian, a hashtag is a word or smashed-together phrasal idiom preceded by the hash symbol (#), earlier devised as a way to agree track of the give ear of subject . cyberspace Relay Chats in the head sensationt place started using the hashtag in 1988 to categorize the material body of groups and topics on the site. just now in 2007, promiscuous source post Chris Messina, suggested that hashtags be utilise on twitter to tag assorted topics of interest and the first hashtag on Twitter was created. His tweet stated, how do you feel slightly using # (pound) for groups. As in #barcamp [msg]?  Ben Zimmer reveals in his condition titled The invention of the Self-Mocking Hashtag  his views o n the hashtag. development his article as a lens, we undersurface look at different hashtags and keep his theories and ideas. Hashtags play an distinguished social and rhetorical role and oftentimes 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 occasion of #selfie was back in 2001 when single-valued functionr Jennlee  commit a realize using that hashtag and lonesome(prenominal) getting 67 likes. Now in 2014, pop star Justin Bieber, can post a limning using #selfie and get 1.06 trillion likes. Justin Biebers use compared to Jennlee  proves how much power #selfie has gained. It has given save from just cosmos a hashtag on Instagram to Twitter and now Facebook. Ellen DeGeneres po sted a selfie with fellow celebrities at the 2014 Oscars, which now has 3.4 million retweets and 1.9 million favorites, the most(prenominal) retweets in history. Ellen genuinely crashed Twitter in her attempts to get the mo... '