The unlikely lesson from inventing the hashtag | Chris Messina | TEDxIzhevsk

Inventor of the hashtag Chris Messina shares both his motivations and how he came up with his seductively simple idea that’s had massive ramifications on communication and media in our highly networked (and sometimes disconnected) modern internet era. Because of its transparent, open source aspects, Chris explains how the hashtag opened the door for a new level of connectedness and communication that hadn’t existed previously, offering a democratizing tool for everyday people to participate in conversation