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The Ubiquitous Symbol of Twitter Turns 10


Ten years ago today, a Google employee tweeted the idea of using the pound sign as a metadata tag to group and keep track of online discussions on any given topic, giving rise to what is now the single most widely used symbol on the Internet.

August 23rd, 2017 2:30 PM

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