Hash tag and Camel case
The
hash symbol tracking more than 30 years (you can research on it), has been in
use and to date has really evolved in Information Technology mostly on Keyword
functions and instructions. Social media platforms have used hashed tags for many years, which
later became hashtags. And because
of its widespread use, the name hashtag got added to the Oxford
English Dictionary in June, 2014.
Hashtags are metadata tags used on social networks like
Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Instagram, Telegram among many other microblogging
networks/apps to make work easier. Hashtags allows
users to apply dynamic, user-generated Content (also known as User-Created
Content (UCC) – is any form of content created by users
of a system or service and made available publicly on that system) way of tagging which makes it possible for others to easily find
messages with a specific title or content. For instance, on Twitter or Facebook
let say for example #TechInTheWild, to check out what
people are saying about a particular event that is happening at this moment or
had happened earlier, you can type the hashtag on the search panel –
TechInTheWild is a tech and business bootcamp organized by Narcet Hub, Nakuru
every first weekend of December each year. On Instagram, a hashtag allows users to
find all the posts/photos that have been tagged using that particular hashtag.
Same can be applied on Google search, type in the hashtag and click enter and
you’ll see all information about that hashtag/topic globally.
Hash tags got the name “hashtag” as the sign
# hash is used before the word(s),
character(s) or in tech terms; a string of alphanumeric characters
in an unspaced phrase.
Now, from that we go to Camel case or
otherwise stylized as camelCase or CamelCase, lets go with CamelCase. What is Camel case?
Camel case
(am sure you have a clue of what it is by now) spoiler alert… CamelCase is the
practice of writing compound words or phrases together with no intervening
spaces or punctuation with each word or abbreviation in the middle of the phrase
beginning with a capital letter for example iPhone, eBay, iTax, DreamWorks,
iHub and CamelCase. Title Case is another way of writing compound words or
phrases; for example, the title or name of an organization or company, “Writers Guild
Kenya or Nakuru Scribes or Narcet Hub”.
There
are other ways of writing compound words like Snake case where an underscore is
used between words and Pascal case which is concatenating
capitalized words -- more or less like a subset of Camel
case. CamelCase way of writing words is widely used in writing more than one
word hashtags. For instance; #NakuruScribes, #BookwarmSafari… two words joined
together to form one word name/hashtag. #BookwarmSafari is a challenge by
Nakuru Scribes where a reader posts a photo on social media especially Twitter,
Facebook and Instagram while reading a book anywhere and tag Nakuru Scribes.
The challenge is; from where have you gotten the warmth of your book today? In
which place and in what position? Join in today. The
hashtag says it all when used as a caption and it’s also easier for anyone
online to search for that hashtag and find all other posts by other people in
the world.
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Until
next time, peace.
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