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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: hashtags</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/hashtags.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2011-01-14T04:02:00+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>The science of the hashtag</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2011/Jan/14/science/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2011-01-14T04:02:00+00:00</published><updated>2011-01-14T04:02:00+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2011/Jan/14/science/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.twitter.com/1058/science-hashtag"&gt;The science of the hashtag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Interesting analysis of how the #lessambitiousmovies hash tag took off thanks to retweets from a couple of key users with very creative followers.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/memes"&gt;memes&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/twitter"&gt;twitter&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/recovered"&gt;recovered&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/hashtags"&gt;hashtags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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