Chris Messina’s Comments

• Dec 4th, 2013 @ 4:42pm

  IRC was a heavy influence

  on Twitter Hashtag Inventor Explains Why Patenting It Would Have Been The Wrong Thing To Do
  As I wrote in my original proposal, IRC was definitely an inspiration, as was Jaiku:
  
  http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/08/25/groups-for-twitter-or-a-proposal-for-twitter-tag-channel s/