[Air-L] First occurrence of a Twitter hashtag

[Shulman, Stu]

If you know roughly when it started, you can do amazing work with Twitter's
Advanced Search

https://twitter.com/search-advanced?lang=en

Set the date range, enter the query, and you can poke around with
historical data samples. I got so excited about this tool when it came out,
I made a 2-minute explanatory video:

http://www.screencast.com/t/ZppNB6xSiBpk

~Stu




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
>
> Rachel Pollack Ichou
> Associate Programme Specialist
> Section for Freedom of Expression
> Division of Freedom of Expression and Media Development
> Communication and Information Sector
> United Nations
> Educational, Scientific and
> Cultural Organization
>
> 7, Place de Fontenoy
> F-75352 Paris 07 SP France
>
> Tel.: +33 (0)1 45 68 12 94
> Email: r.pollack at unesco.org
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>
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-- 
Dr. Stuart W. Shulman
Founder and CEO, Texifter