Talk:Hashtag

Jaiku
This article is also missing any mention of Jaiku. Jaiku originally had channels that were marked by the pound sign. You could actually send a Jaiku to a channel and it would not show up in your stream. Of course, that came from other systems that used pound signs before it, but the idea of grouping together social media ideas around a certain meta concept started at Jaiku. Twitter users that were frustrated that Twitter wouldn't add the channel feature decided to advocate for the hashtag. And this all happened well before Chris Messina's tweet in Aug 2007, but if I remember correctly, that Tweet was the one that rallied most people around the pound sign versus the other suggestions that were out there. grandeped (talk) 04:14, 03 Jul 2014 (UTC)