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Wasn't this also sort of a feature with Twitter? iirc the retweet and other now popular features were originally hacked together by users
by mhartz 2y ago
Wasn't this also sort of a feature with Twitter? iirc the retweet and other now popular features were originally hacked together by users
- frabcus 2y agoRetweet was original using the text "RT". Hashtags were also invented by Twitter users.
- FranklinMaillot 2y agoWasn't the @ also invented by users? I remember it was fascinating to watch this network self organize and create conventions of its own, that are now used everywhere.
- rsynnott 2y agoAlso hashtags. Though I think some of this stuff came from other social networks.
- singleshot_ 2y agoSeems to me like Jarkko Oikarinen or one of his crew invented hashtags, no? Denoting the context of your communication with something like #warez or #hack significantly predates web2.0.
- chefandy 2y agoThat use— to define IRC channels— seems distinctly different than Twitter hashtags to tag individual posts. I wouldn’t be surprised if hash tags started as a nod to that, perhaps even jokingly, but I don’t think you could consider them a descendent.
- sph 2y agoRather I think Twitter-style hashtags take inspiration from IRC channels in the format of #topic Because channel names are not hashtags. The syntax is purely because IRC is a text-based protocol, so you need a special way to distinguish channel names from regular text.
- extraduder_ire 2y ago# also has the advantage of being on a key on a T9 keypad while using twitter over SMS was in style.
- soco 2y agoI think reblogs as a technical feature were added first in 2009 by Tumblr and slightly later adopted by Twitter - not that it matters in this context.
- skybrian 2y agoHashtags were invented. It's a convention that happened to work well with Twitter's search engine.
- xavdid 2y agoThe word "tweet" itself came from a 3rd party developer: > The Iconfactory was developing a Twitter application in 2006 called "Twitterrific" and developer Craig Hockenberry began a search for a shorter way to refer to "Post a Twitter Update." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweet_(social_media)#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweet_(social_media)#History