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why is it a hashtag on twitter but a pound sign on your phone?
anybody know why "they" decided to call the "pound sign" a "hashtag"?
Scott: thanks - i had the same thoughts about the pound tag and the hash mark name jumbling - i worked in computers when the internet was fairly new, and that "hash mark" was pretty much always known as the "pound sign" on a keyboard where i was - in the USA. you're right about it being a "null" line on a program where you could enter comments as long as you used the pound sign as a prefix.
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- ?Lv 69 years agoFavorite Answer
Actually, it's the # that's called either a hash or a pound sign. Hash tag is a tag with a # (or hash mark) in front of it. It's really just convention that's it's called a hashtag and not a poundtag and that's it's called a pound sign on your phone. Generally in computing a # is called a hash sign. This is from certain programming languages that use the symbol, if I remember correctly, for commenting code. However, it would technically be just as valid to call a hashtag a poundtag and a pound sign on your phone a hash sign, it's just not the norm.
- ?Lv 45 years ago
Sorry, I don't know what you are speaking a few hashtag and the pound look fully unique to me, how can they be the same? £ and # wholly special. One of the most factors why I should not have twitter. :)
