The History of #Hashtags [INFOGRAPHIC]

The first recorded use of a hashtag on Twitter is credited to designer Chris Messina way back in August 2007, when he asked his followers how they felt about using the pound sign to group conversations on the micro-blogging platform.

And a movement was born.

Here’s the tweet:

how do you feel about using # (pound) for groups. As in #barcamp [msg]?

— Chris Messina™ (@chrismessina) August 23, 2007

Two years later Twitter officially added hashtags to the core of the platform, and Google+, Instagram, Vine and even Facebook later incorporated hashtags into their systems.

But