Chris Messina, creator of the hashtag, outlines three simple rules: #KeepItSimple, #KillerUseCase, and #MakeItHackable.

A well-known figure in the Silicon Valley community, Messina famously introduced the now-ubiquitous hashtag to Twitter, which has now been widely adopted and used across many social media ...

Chris Messina, developer experience lead at Uber and inventor of the hashtag, said back in January that 2016 is “the year of conversational commerce.” Today, he’s launching his own personal ...

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Chris Messina, a former Google developer who is noted as creating the hashtag for use on Twitter, has joined ride-hailing service Uber.

Jan. 3—There are nerds, and then there's Bedford's Chris Messina. Sure, New Hampshire has had its share of inventors and innovators. But how many can say a co-founder of Twitter called their ...

When Chris Messina took his idea for something called a ‘hashtag’ to Twitter, they rejected it out of hand. “They thought it was too complex and users would never use them,” Messina explains.

Thanks to a Tweet by Chris Messina (@chrismessina), a Twitter user from the early years, the hashtag was successfully pitched to the online community as a way to organize messages into meaningful ...

Next time you slap a hashtag on an Instagram selfie or to get your tweet seen in the #auspol cesspit, spare a thought for Chris Messina. Social technology expert and "digital nomad" Chris Messina.

Chris Messina, the man credited with inventing the now ubiquitous hashtag, is joining Uber. At the ride-hailing company he is the Developer Experience Lead, he wrote in a blog post on Medium ...