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Chris Messina: Tech Pioneer and Inventor of the Hashtag

Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People

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Using Twitter in a New Way

As social media scaled and grew, there needed to be a way to add some additional formation or intention. And you had to create a solution to filter that content that would work only in text format. So by simply adding a pound symbol in front of a word, or phrase that didn't have spaces in it, you created a new token of meaning. This was essentially kind of a saved search function. If you think by the way thet twitter works, every tweat that's created has a user name imbedded in it. And if you are tracking that user name, those messages from that user name will be sent to you. But all i want to do is really bring the

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