Happy Paths
Happy Paths, a series from CommandBar, explores the human process behind some of the most well-known software of the internet era.
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The Hashtag with Chris Messina
June 21st, 2023 | Season 1 | 24 mins 33 secs
chris messina, hashtag, twitter
What do TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook have in common? It's the hashtag: invented by a man of the internet, Chris Messina. Throughout his career, Chris has worked on movements online and offline that have helped define social media and social technology broadly. If you've used Firefox, attended a BarCamp event, or even checked in at a co-working space, then you're more than familiar with Chris' widespread impact.
James sat down with Chris to learn more about the hashtag and to see how a simple feature proposed via a tweet evolved social media basically everywhere on the internet.