Twitter celebrates 12th birthday of the ‘hashtag’
- Twitter unveiled top hashtags that dominated conversations on the platform in the first half of the year 2019 in India
- #Viswasam, #LokSabhaElections2019 and #CWC19 were the Most Tweeted Hashtags for 2019
Happy Birthday hashtag (#). The hashtag was born on Twitter 12 years ago, and has become one of the most recognizable and widely used symbols of our time. As the internet celebrates 12th birthday of the hashtag today, Twitter unveiled top hashtags that dominated conversations on the platform in the first half of the year 2019 in India.
#Viswasam, #LokSabhaElections2019 and #CWC19 were the Most Tweeted Hashtags for 2019
The Top Hashtag Trend reflected the rise of regional entertainment on Twitter, with Tamil action drama film #Viswasam landing the spot.
This was followed by conversations around politics and governance. Throughout the campaign period for the #LokSabhaElections2019, politicians and political parties used Twitter to communicate with Indian citizens in the country and across the world, while citizens took to the platform to address their queries directly to contesting leaders.
As cricket fans from all over the world came to Twitter to talk about winning moments, shocking upsets, classic catches, and unique to this World Cup - the memes about the rain, #CWC19 became the top 3rd hashtag this year.
Entertainment continued making trends, with the Indian Telugu-language action drama film #Maharshi grabbing the fourth spot.
#NewProfilePic encouraged visual content on the platform as users Tweeted about updating their profile pictures, becoming the 5th most commonly Tweeted Hashtag of the year.
Additionally, Twitter launched an emoji to celebrate the symbol that connects communities and unifies conversations. The specially designed emoji is a hashtag symbol stamped on a heart, translating it into a beautiful interpretation of how the hashtag has transformed the nature of communication online, thus becoming a powerful way to aggregate global conversations and movements.
The emoji will be live for the day and will be available in English and Hindi. Users across the globe can participate in the conversations and celebrate by hashtag-ing their conversations on #HashtagDayand #हैशटैगदिवस.
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