As I wandered through the crowded market of Teguise, my thoughts were on the souvenirs I could bring back to my home planet. The chaos of the market was a cacophony of sounds and smells, with traders shouting and haggling over deals. I navigated through the crowds, searching for the perfect artifact to take with me.

Algorithmic Ownership is a form of distributed ownership in which content is assigned to an owner based on an algorithmic association of usernames with the content in the search results.

Hashtagability is ‘the potential of the hashtag to do things’. It helps to understand the ‘happening’ of hashtags and provides the framework to study them.

The sudden bushfires in the San Diego region of California in August 2007 helped to introduce hashtags to a wider audience.