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title: 'Tagalus: 10,000 Twitter hashtags defined and counting'
date: '2010-01-27T01:15:11-08:00'
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# Tagalus: 10,000 Twitter hashtags defined and counting

Despite all the Portland love for the [Twitter](http://twitter.com "Twitter"), the fact remains that—for the uninitiated—Twitter can be a bit of a foreign realm. Crazy shorthand. Weird @ replies. And those strange phrases crammed behind # signs.

But [since early 2009](http://siliconflorist.com/2009/02/17/tagalus-hashing-through-twitter-hashtags-and-testing-oauth-too/ "Tagalus: Hashing through Twitter hashtags… and testing OAuth too"), one site has been working to change that. Well, at least by providing some insight into [that whole hashtag thing](http://siliconflorist.com/2009/06/03/chris-messina-history-hashtags-sll-wv09/ "Chris Messina on the history of #hashtags and more with #sll from #wv09") (the # phrases). That site is Portland-based [tagal.us](http://tagal.us "tagalus"), a site focused on helping define the hashtags used on Twitter. And today, it passed a major milestone by capturing a definition for its 10,000th hashtag.

Think about that for a second. Ten thousand hashtags in under a year. And while it’s likely a small subset of the massive number of hashtags flying around Twitter at any given second, it’s still a momentous achievement for a side project, lovingly crafted by [John Nastos](http://twitter.com/jnpdx "John Nastos on Twitter").

So who gets credit the lucky 10,000th hashtag? Well, admittedly, after a bit of hashtag bombing to add tags 9991-9999 to tagal.us, Kelly Guimont—known by her Twitter handle [@verso](http://twitter.com/verso "Verso on Twitter")—wound up securing the 10,000th hashtag with [\#hireDkelly](http://tagal.us/tag/hireDkelly "#hireDkelly").

Congrats to tagal.us on making it this far. And remember, the next time you slam some series of words together to make a #ridiculoushashtag, make sure to add it to [tagal.us](http://tagal.us "tagalus").

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