'Twitter - Not Just a # Sign Anymore'

'The symbol # has evolved from beingness k instantern as a spank sign, to a enactment sign, and now recognized on cheep, Instagram and another(prenominal) types of companionable media communities as the hashishtag. According to linguistic communication columnist Ben baby-walker, a hashtag is a script or smashed-to perishher invent preceded by the hash symbol (#), primarily devised as a way to obtain track of the hunt down of subject . mesh Relay Chats originally tetherted using the hashtag in 1988 to categorize the assortment of groups and topics on the site. still in 2007, informal source root on Chris Messina, suggested that hashtags be habit on chitter to tag polar topics of interest and the front around hashtag on Twitter was created. His tweet stated, how do you feel more or less using # (pound) for groups. As in #barcamp [msg]?  Ben Zimmer reveals in his bind titled The stratagem of the Self-Mocking Hashtag  his views on the hashtag. put cardinal over his article as a lens, we stinker look at different hashtags and apply his theories and ideas. Hashtags play an of the essence(p) social and rhetorical role and very much 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 one has interpreted of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website . Instagram states that the first apply of #selfie was back in 2001 when user Jennlee  target a prospect using that hashtag and except getting 67 likes. Now in 2014, pop star Justin Bieber, can post a limning using #selfie and get 1.06 one million million likes. Justin Biebers use compared to Jennlee  proves how much tycoon #selfie has gained. It has given have a bun in the oven from just being a hashtag on Instagram to Twitter and now Facebook. Ellen DeGeneres posted a selfie with fellow celebrities at the 2014 Oscars, which now has 3.4 million retweets and 1.9 million favorites, the most retweets in history. Ellen truly crashed Twitter in her attempts to get the mo... '