{"id":5987,"date":"2014-09-12T08:47:10","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T06:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/?p=5987"},"modified":"2014-09-12T08:47:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T06:47:10","slug":"a-history-of-hashtags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/social-media-2\/a-history-of-hashtags\/","title":{"rendered":"A history of #hashtags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hashtags are such a big part of social media today, and are used on a number of platforms, from Instagram to Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>From humble beginnings five years ago on Twitter, hashtags have now become a powerful tool that can be used in a multitude of ways, from running brand campaigns to collating breaking news.<\/p>\n<p>This simple infographic gives you a brief overview of the evolution of the hashtag, from 2007 to today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/History-of-Hashtags-Infographic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5990\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/History-of-Hashtags-Infographic.jpg\" alt=\"History-of-Hashtags-Infographic\" width=\"900\" height=\"2102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/History-of-Hashtags-Infographic.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/History-of-Hashtags-Infographic-128x300.jpg 128w, https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/History-of-Hashtags-Infographic-438x1024.jpg 438w, https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/History-of-Hashtags-Infographic-613x1432.jpg 613w, https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/History-of-Hashtags-Infographic-840x1962.jpg 840w, https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/History-of-Hashtags-Infographic-400x934.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/History-of-Hashtags-Infographic-60x140.jpg 60w, https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/History-of-Hashtags-Infographic-680x1588.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hashtags are such a big part of social media today, and are used on a number of platforms, from Instagram to Facebook. From humble beginnings five years ago on Twitter, hashtags have now become a powerful tool that can be used in a multitude of ways, from running brand campaigns to collating breaking news. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":6193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[381,338],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-5987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infographic","category-social-media-2","tag-social-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screen-Shot-2014-09-09-at-1.35.03-PM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdAWxt-1yz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5987"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6196,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions\/6196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}