After the takeover bid of Twitter by billionaire Elon Musk last year in 2022, many employees from the company were laid off as a part of the restructuring, and many left because of the recent management change. Chris Messina recently joined the group of people who left Twitter on April 21, and he confirmed it through a tweet.
Chris, the inventor of hashtags that were used to categorise messages, has left the platform, citing Elon Musk’s mismanagement. He was upset about the verification process of the blue ticks on Twitter accounts. Twitter began deleting the traditional blue ticks earlier this month, and those wishing to keep them will have to pay $8 monthly for a Twitter Blue subscription.
As per the reports, this paid subscription model for Blue ticks upset the hashtag, founder. Even Messina’s blue tick was removed, but he confirmed that this was not the actual reason for leaving the platform. It was the mismanagement of the company, and drastic changes happened since the takeover in October 2022.
Earlier last month, Elon Musk tweeted about his hate for hashtags while replying to an image that had a tweet created by ChatGPT on SpaceX and replied suggesting not to use a hashtag.
Tweeterati speculates that in the coming months, Musk will remove the concept of hashtags from Twitter.
Messina presented the idea of hashtags in 2007, allowing users to look up topics using the hash sign (#). The concept The proposal got a lot of attention on social networking platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
The hashtag allows users to conduct quick subject searches and helps increase their post’s reach. On Twitter, trending hashtags are now shown in real-time in a separate section.
Furthermore, hashtags can be used to filter out the most popular, most recent images and videos relevant to a particular topic.
The “Twitter Blue” paid subscription service, a premium edition of the microblogging site, has now replaced the previously used blue checkmarks on Twitter to indicate a verified, prominent individual. This paid subscription service came into effect on the night of April 20. It resulted in several high-profile users choosing not to pay for the subscription, which resulted in losing their verified status or blue ticks.
Notably, the idea of making Blue ticks a paid subscription service was announced two weeks after Elon Musk took over Twitter in October 2022.
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