[Air-L] First occurrence of a Twitter hashtag

Pollack, Rachel r.pollack at unesco.org
Mon Mar 27 07:22:04 PDT 2017


Thank you, Stu, and to the others who answered!

I found what I was looking for: #journosafe seems to have been first used on 22 November 2012.

Many thanks,

Rachel

From: Shulman, Stu [mailto:stu at texifter.com]
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 3:30 PM
To: Pollack, Rachel <r.pollack at unesco.org>
Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org; De Roy, Gerwin <g.de-roy at unesco.org>
Subject: Re: [Air-L] First occurrence of a Twitter hashtag

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<mailto: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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