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		010100101 on Oct 25, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GUI vs CLI: Operation vs Expression When people use #hashtags in Twitter is this like a command on the command line? Do you think there was much debate at Twitter over whether users would be able to understand and effectively use #hashtags?

jmmcd on Oct 25, 2011 [–]

Great example. Before Twitter, Google had already begun the re-education of the masses to use text-oriented interfaces with things like "label:" in Gmail search and "filetype:" in Google search.

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