Antedating of "hashtag"

[Hugo]

Not in OED.

Wikipedia says:

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The first use of the term "hash tag" was in a blog post by Stowe Boyd,
"Hash Tags = Twitter Groupings,"[8] on 26 August 2007, according to
lexicographer Ben Zimmer, chair of the American Dialect Society's New
Words Committee.

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[8] "Stowe Boyd, Hash Tags = Twitter Groupings". Stoweboyd.com.
Retrieved 2013-09-19.
http://stoweboyd.com/post/39877198249/hash-tags-twitter-groupings
[End]

I found an earlier example. Only by a single day, and by the same
person, but still. Here it is, with both "hash tag" and "#hashtag":

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I support the hash tag convention: http://tinyurl.com/2qttlb #hashtag
#factoryjoe #twitter
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Stowe Boyd, @stoweboyd
3:36 PM - 25 Aug 2007
https://twitter.com/stoweboyd/status/226570552

The referenced 25 Aug 2007 blogpost doesn't actually use an explicit
"hash tag" or "hashtag" but concludes:

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Anyway… I support the #tag convention.
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http://stoweboyd.com/post/971380334/chris-messina-on-twitter-tags
http://wayback.archive.org/web/20101204010349/http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/971380334/chris-messina-on-twitter-tags

Hugo

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