Slashtag / Microsyntax
Slashtags or Microsyntax are a set of short community-created conventions for attributing information on Twitter. They are designed to be succinct and provide an easy way to provide metadata about a tweet, especially when "retweeting". A word like “follow” (to subscribe to someone’s Twitter feed), and the symbols @ (denoting an online name) and # (a “hashtag,” denoting a searchable topic) have specific meanings on Twitter that have begun to migrate across the entire web and beyond.
Originally written on
September 25, 2012
and last modified on
November 22, 2013.
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