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libria on May 23, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is it true that you can't tweet "Get Better."?

Well there aren't many convenient choices on a phone. # is used in twitter, * is often used by the carrier. Might have been better to prefix with just "z".

scoot on May 23, 2012 | [–]

Twitter existed before the hash-tag - that was a user created meme: http://support.twitter.com/articles/49309-what-are-hashtags-...

treetrouble on May 23, 2012 | [–]

disabling the use of #get as a hashtag is still better than disabling its use as an english word

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