Michael Moore created a hashtag that provoked a flurry racist tweets. Sept. 19, 2012 — -- After Mitt Romney asserted in a closed-door fundraiser that he’d have a better chance at winning the ...

The hashtag has been trending all day in the United States. A highlight of the diverse faces of people from the social media campaign #BlackOutDay. Twitter images clockwise from top left: ...

A new hashtag has taken Twitter by storm in the face of Black History Month, asking users to post photos of all persons of color in "day to day life" throughout history. The resulting surge of posted ...

Politicians and political watchers alike are trying to capitalize on Twitter's once straightfoward hashtag symbol. In a fun essay at TheAtlantic.com, Nancy Scola notes that the hashtag (the # symbol) ...

Black Twitter was a force to be reckoned with in 2014. We saw the calling out and subsequent firing of people who posted racist tweets, as well as meaningful calls to action in which social activists ...

Back in 2007, Twitter user @chrismessina thought the hashtag would be a good way to make groups. He originally tweeted #barcamp - an international network of user-generated conferences primarily ...