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January 15, 2014 03:54 am GMT
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How the @-Mention Took Over Social Networks
The "@" symbol used to be just for email. Then it was for Twitter too. Now, it transcends networks.
In 2006, Robert Andersen, then a freelance designer who later joined Square as a founding team member, became the first person on Twitter to use the "@" symbol to reply to another user. Andersen didn't do a proper @-mention as we know it today — a space separated the symbol and the username — but it helped establish a language for communicating that is now commonplace on Twitter.
More about Facebook, Twitter, Marketing, and Social Media@ buzz - you broke your thumb and youre still twittering? that's some serious devotion
— Robert Andersen (@rsa) November 3, 2006 Read more...
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