The 10 Kinds Of Twitter Hashtaggers

Which kind are you?

Hashtags on Twitter signify a lot of things, but above all, using them signifies a seasoned Twitter user. Still haven't figured out how to deploy the pound sign with a bunch of words behind it in a way that makes sense? Maybe this taxonomy of the ten kinds of hashtaggers will help.

#Originalists 
Way back in ye olde aught seven, a humble man named Chris Messina proposed a convention for nerds to organize at events: The pound sign, making groups easily searchable. Lo and behold, the #hashtag was born. Today, events like SXSWi now tell people exactly which hashtags to use to organize the outbound flow of thousands of tweets.


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