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[–] 25 points 7 months ago (3 children)

IIRC Twitter introduced using # to make words searchable across all of the tweets, hence the name.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    It had potential to be a great way to index and find things based on key terms. The flaw was letting the normies use it.

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