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Hashtag # Celebrating Its 10Th Birthday


The hashtag, the image connected to watchwords to label subjects on the web, on Wednesday praises 10 years making online networking slightly more traversable.

The sign has gone before the watchwords that check out every single real occasion the world over since 2007 when it got its initial trip on Twitter. After a short time, it had spread to other online networking including Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr.

It was Chris Messina, an American architect and online networking master, who initially proposed utilizing the hash sign (#) pound sign in American English to aggregate tweets by subject.

He made the first recommendation in a tweet posted on August 23, 2007, preceding expounding in a post online a few days after the fact.

He propelled the principal ever hashtag, #barcamp, to recognize an arrangement of gatherings focused around innovation and the web that he sorted out.

Messina, who portrays himself as an "energetic Twitterer", has sent more than 39,500 tweets in 11 years.

Today 125 million hashtags are traded each day, regularly filling in as a springboard to dispatch enormous online battles.

In April 2014 the kidnapping at Chibok in northeastern Nigeria of 276 schoolgirls by Islamists from Boko Haram prompted the posting of the #BringBackOurGirls hashtag.

The then US first woman Michelle Obama was among the individuals who utilized it to attract regard for the battle against Boko Haram, which at the time appeared to have Nigeria s armed force on the back foot.

#BlackLivesMatter was another computerized revitalizing cry, turning into a web sensation amid a flood of challenges over the passing of a few dark individuals because of the police in the United States.

At that point, there was #OccupyWallStreet for the American "angry" development that set up a challenging camp in the core of the New York s Manhattan to dissent monetary insatiability and debasement.

Hashtags have additionally jumped up in the wake of dread assaults to enable web clients to express solidarity for the casualties and survivors.

In 2015, #JeSuisCharlie was shared five million times in the two days after the January 7 jihadist assault on French humorous magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, which killed 12 individuals.

#PrayforParis was tweeted more than six million times after the November 2015 assaults in and around Paris which cost 130 lives.

The trademark was adjusted somewhere else, for instance in Berlin #PrayforBerlin after a truck assault departed 12 dead at a Berlin Christmas advertise in December 2016.


Syed Tanzeel Ashfaq

Syed Tanzeel Ashfaq is Software Engineer by profession and has over ten years of experience. He loves to express himself through blogging about Information Technology, Software development, Urdu literature, Islamic history and several other topics.