Twitter hashtag turns 10: Here are a few facts that you might have missed

Here are a few things you might not have known about the internet's most-popular symbol

- Born on August 23, 2007, the hashtag was originally meant to simply 'tag' or categorise tweets.

- Hashtags ate searchable on Twitter, Facebook, Googleplus, Instagram and many other social media sites.



- Twitter user Chris Messina, on this day 10 years ago, tweeted #barcamp -- the first time a hashtag was used.



- Today, an average of 125 million hashtags are shared globally every day on the platform.



- In 2013, Jimmy Fallon & Justin Timberlake created their #hashtag skit for 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon' to parody the overuse and misuse of hashtags.



- The most popular hashtags worldwide are #NowPlaying which was used over one billion times, #FollowFriday (over half billion times) and #ThrowbackThursday (over 120 million times).

- #TheWalkingDead was the most tweeted television show hashtag of all time and in the movies category, it was #StarWars.



- The most tweeted global sporting event hashtag was #Euro2016.



- Because of its widespread use, hashtag was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in June 2014.