Comments by "EebstertheGreat" (@EebstertheGreat) on "Faking It: The Obviously Dubbed Telephone Ring" video.

  1.  @error.418  "Hashtag" does refer to the whole tag, but people also use it just to refer to #, which I think is wrong but whatever. Apparently Twitter itself calls it the "hashtag symbol" which is just getting ridiculous.
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  2. The same character is used as a pound sign and a number sign in the U.S. As far as I know, it isn't used that way in the U.K., where it is a rare punctuation mark. In the context of telephones, the # symbol was commonly called "pound" by robotic answering systems, for instance. Apparently it was called "octothorpe" by telephone engineers. The term "hash" might be the oldest of all of these, as an alteration of "hatch," which is still common in the U.K., but it's not used much in the U.S. outside of computing as a one-syllable name for the ASCII character (similar to "bang" for !, "splat" for *, "cash" for $, etc.). When people talk about hashtags, the say "hashtag" before every tag, and so effectively that becomes the name of the symbol, which is annoying, but I guess it makes sense.
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