[Air-L] First occurrence of a Twitter hashtag

Thomas Ball xtc283 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 27 06:20:17 PDT 2017


A good place to start might be this paper by Goel, Anderson, Hofman and
Watts *The Structural Virality of Online Diffusion. *They leverage twitter
data for their model(s).

Good luck,
Thomas Ball

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Pollack, Rachel <r.pollack at unesco.org>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> A question for all the Twitter researchers out there: does anyone know how
> to find the first use of a hashtag?
>
> I came across the tool Who Tweeted It First (http://ctrlq.org/first/),
> but it seems to cover only very recent Tweets, and I am interested in a
> hashtag that has been used for several years.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Rachel
>
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