Chris Messina (inventor)

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Christopher Reaves Messina (born January 7, 1981) is an American blogger, product consultant and speaker who proposed the usage of the hashtag as it is currently used on social media platforms. In a 2007 tweet, Messina proposed vertical/associational grouping of messages, trends, and events on Twitter by means of hashtags. The hashtag was intended to be a type of metadata tag that allowed users to apply dynamic, user-generated tagging, which made it possible for others to easily find messages with a specific bigger theme or content. It allowed easy, informal markup of folksonomy without need of any formal taxonomy or markup language. Hashtags have since been referred to as the "eavesdroppers", "wormholes", "time-machines", and "veins" of the Internet. How do you feel about using # (pound) for groups. As in #barcamp [msg]? Although Twitter's initial response to Messina's proposed use of hashtags was negative, stating that "these things are for nerds" a series of events, including the devastating...

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