Etymology From earlier hash tag, from hash (sign) + tag. The hash sign # was initially proposed as tag hash by Chris Messina to create groups on Twitter, modeled after the IRC channel prefix. First published use as hash tag by Stowe Boyd in 2007.
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Internet A metadata tag, signaled by a preceding hash sign (#), used to label content.
I support the hash tag convention: http://tinyurl.com/2qttlb #hashtag #factoryjoe #twitter2007 Aug 25, Stowe Boyd, tweet, https://twitter.com/stoweboyd/status/226570552
You can also search for a hashtag by typing a topic (without the #) in the search box and clicking Search.2009, Paul McFedries, Pete Cashmore, Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets:
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While hashtags aren't formally part of Twitter, some clients, such as Tweetdeck, will persist hashtags across replies to create a sort of message threading.2009, Alistair Croll, Sean Power, Complete Web Monitoring:
The planes are moving into position. The foreign ministers of minor Arab states are taking calls on their cell-phones from Western politicians. Twitter accounts explode around the Libyan hash-tag.2011, Rory Stewart, “Here we go again”, in London Review of Books, 33.VII:
I sound like a shitty mother and wife. Or at the very least an inadequate wife and ungrateful mother–which is in stark contrast to the image I try to portray on Instagram. Hashtag happy life. Hashtag beautiful family. Hashtag blessed.2016, Emily Giffin, First Comes Love: A Novel, New York City: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 40:
You're perpetually stoned, aren't you? Hashtag four twenty four seven.2018, John Allison, By Night, volume 1, Los Angeles, CA: Boom! Box, →ISBN, page n.p.:
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The Occam’s razor explanation is that he’s just hashtag-blessed with the kind of lustrous lashes that many people spend a lot of money (and rack up a lot of Sephora Beauty Insider points) trying to get.2024 July 31, Heather Schwedel, Is J.D. Vance Wearing Eyeliner?:
Etymology From earlier hash tag, from hash (sign) + tag. The hash sign # was initially proposed as tag hash by Chris Messina to create groups on Twitter, modeled after the IRC channel prefix. First published use as hash tag by Stowe Boyd in 2007.
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Internet, Ambitransitive To label (a message) with a hashtag.
The photo-sharing site was riddled with fake accounts that liked, followed and hashtagged out the wazoo. Then came the great “Instagram Rapture,” Instagram’s pledge last December to clean out the fake accounts and do “everything possible to keep Instagram free from the fake and spammy accounts that plague much of the web.”2015 July 2, Julia Carpenter, “Can we ever beat the bots? Not on Instagram.”, in The Washington Post: