[Air-L] First occurrence of a Twitter hashtag

sally sally at sally.com
Mon Mar 27 10:58:35 PDT 2017


Hi Rachel,

I'd check with Chris Messina on Twitter.

He claims to have invented the first hashtag usage on Twitter.

Sally


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On Mar 27, 2017, at 6:20 AM, Thomas Ball wrote:

> 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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