We are all aware of what Hashtags are and how they have changed the way we share information and images on various social media sites. Twitter was the first, but they turned the idea down when it was introduced by; Chris Messina. The 32-year-old has worked as a developer and UX designer at Google (GOOG) but left in August to join the San Francisco based startup NeonMob. In his Twitter bio, Messina refers to himself as the hashtags godfather.
The whole Hashtags idea was based off of channels used in Internet Relay Chat and in Jaiku, a Twitter competitor that was later bought by Google. But the real inspiration, according to a blog post Messina wrote in 2007, was that he wanted to have a “better eavesdropping experience on Twitter.”
Apparently the meeting where Chris Messina introduced the idea didn’t go very well, in his words, according to yahoo news “[Twitter] told me flat out, ‘These things are for nerds. They’re never going to catch on,’” Messina said in a phone interview. I guess we are all “Nerds” now ha Twitter? These things have spread across all major social media sites Facebook, Google+, Instagram, just to name a few; and are frequently used for almost every event, person, place, or thing.
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