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Chris Messina: Tech Pioneer and Inventor of the Hashtag

Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People

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Is There a Hashtak in a Tweet?

In the beginning, people were sceptical and thought hashtak was stupid. Now it's part of that social fabric that' social technology. I think humans are calory preserving machines. We don't want to change for anything. Unless we absolutely have to. But there are those of us who live on the bleeding edge. And we try different things. That overtime prove to be advantageous in some way. When i pitched this idea to the twitterer co founders, they didn't belief that you could convince humans to essentially change their behavior. It's like going all the way across the the strike ound to extend that metaphor a litle too far.

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