[Air-L] First occurrence of a Twitter hashtag

[Amelia Kassel]

Perhaps you could verify this information using sources/techniques suggested by others.

Amelia 

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According to Hashtags.org (https://www.hashtags.org/user-agreement), "Chris Messina, a social technology expert, is credited to have come up with the very first hashtag on Twitter.  He first posted the hashtag #barcamp in August 2007." The whole tweet appeared like this: 

?how do you feel about using # (pound) for groups. As in #barcamp [msg]?? 

"Messina came up with the hashtag with the purpose of gathering discussions and online exchanges regarding Barcamp, a technology unconference gathering activity that spans worldwide. His handle is @MrMessina. Since then, hashtags have spread to other social media sites and all over the internet to become one of the most widely used functions."
http://bit.ly/1bRvaUp
https://www.hashtags.org/featured/hashtag-history-when-and-what-started-it/

More info at the link above.

Amelia

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From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Pollack, Rachel
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Subject: [Air-L] First occurrence of a Twitter hashtag

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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