Mike Greenawalt
Aug 28, 2017 · 1 min read

I enjoyed the article right up to the last sentence. And then the person who should have known better made the classic mistake that many do.

Octothorp is one of the names used for the # character, a construct that has been around for a very long time. “Hashtag” (as I think of it) is the new and unique idea of combining the # with a text string to create a recognizable label. “Hashtag” is NOT the # (hash, pound, number sign, octothorp) by itself. To say so seems to denote sloppiness of thinking.

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