)”Thus, on 23 August 2007, Chris Messina tweeted:⌗ChrisMessina (@chrismessina) how do you feel about using # (pound) for groups. The identity marketing blog loginradius draws attention to a number of miscued, careless or otherwise unfortunate hashtag misfires. First among them is the hashtag created for British singer Susan Boyle #susanalbumparty. Loginradius also drew attention to #WTFF, a hashtag Burger King used to draw attention to its new low-fat French fries. On this, the 10th birthday of the hashtag, the Twitter co-founder Biz Stone recalled in a post that Messina proposed the idea on a day that the site had crashed.

Source: The Guardian August 23, 2017 17:04 UTC