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Social Media & Online Communities · Recorded milestone

Microblogging and hashtags

Recorded year2006

Twitter limits posts to 140 characters and lets anyone follow anyone; Chris Messina's 2007 hashtag groups posts by topic.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.