Social:Mention (blogging)
A mention (also known as @replies or tagging) is a means by which a blog post references or links to a user's profile. This may be done as a matter of getting the attention of (or drawing attention to) another user of a social networking or blogging service, as a matter of replying to the other user's post, or as a matter of "tagging" a user in a post (i.e., to say that "Jay Thompson was here").
Styles and history
@ (at sign)
The rise to prominence of Twitter from its launch in 2006 gave rise to using the at sign ("@") as a description for directing a public post to a particular user, especially for the purpose of replying to another user's post (i.e., "@janedoe"). Only after the usage of @ as a visual means of directing posts to specific users gained currency among Twitter users did Twitter developers begin to integrate the @ sign as a fundamental conversational tool on the site.[citation needed]
Initially, @ was used by Twitter users occasionally as shorthand for other words, such as location or time. The first person to use @ as a description of directing a post at another user was Robert S. Andersen ("rsa") on 2 November 2006;[1][self-published source] initially, this usage made use of a space between the @ and the name, followed by a colon and the main content.[citation needed]
The first to propose a general syntax for directly addressing users in posts were Ben Darlow[2] and Neil Crosby,[3][original research?] and by January 2007, more Twitter users began to take notice of the practice with various degrees of acceptance;[4][self-published source] within the year, the convention trended toward combining the @ and a Twitter username (as opposed to a real name) and prepending the combination to the beginning of a post in order to indicate a reply. Ultimately, they became colloquially known as "@replies" for their primary usage as replies to other users' posts. Twitter added support for "@replies" beginning in May 2008,[5][non-primary source needed] with any combination of @ with a username being turned into a hyperlink to the profile. On March 30, 2009, Twitter updated the feature and renamed it "Mentions" (i.e., to "mention" user "@janedoe") so as to include non-reply posts directed at individual users.[6][non-primary source needed]
Beginning September 2009, Facebook integrated the at sign as a mentioning feature; typing "@" in a post automatically initiates a drop-down autocomplete list containing names of "friends", groups and pages, which, after one being selected and the post published, links to the profile, group or page.[7]
@-replies started being used on Wikipedia around 2013.[8]
YouTube started introducing @-handles in late 2022.[9]
Distributed social networks and federated networks may use two at signs, the latter to indicate the instance/server which the mentioned users resides on. Example @janedoe@mastodon.social mentions the user janedoe on the server mastodon.social.
+ (plus sign)
The plus sign ("+") was utilized on Google+ to select a user or page.[citation needed]
Software
TinyMCE, a online rich-text editor supports mentions via the Mentions plugin.[10]
CKEditor, a online rich-text editor supports mentions.[11]
GitLab, a DevOps platform supports mentions in merge requests, issues, discussions, etc.[12]
Mastodon supports mentions.[13] User lookup is implemented using the WebFinger protocol.
References
- ↑ Garrett Murray (10 Jul 2012). "The Real History of the @reply on Twitter". Maniacal Rage. http://log.maniacalrage.net/post/26935842947/the-real-history-of-the-reply-on-twitter.
- ↑ Ben Darlow (November 23, 2006). "wondering if there should be a pseudo-syntax for letting a Follower on twitter know you're directing a comment at them.". Twitter. https://twitter.com/kapowaz/statuses/139453.
- ↑ Neil Crosby (November 23, 2006). "@kapowaz: probably". Twitter. https://twitter.com/NeilCrosby/statuses/139513.
- ↑ "Origin of the @reply – Digging through twitter's history". Anarchogeek. July 9, 2012. http://anarchogeek.com/2012/07/09/origin-of-the-reply-digging-through-twitters-history/.
- ↑ Evan Williams (May 12, 2008). "How @replies work on Twitter (and how they might)". Twitter. http://blog.twitter.com/2008/05/how-replies-work-on-twitter-and-how.html.
- ↑ Biz Stone (March 30, 2009). "Replies Are Now Mentions". Twitter. http://blog.twitter.com/2009/03/replies-are-now-mentions.html.
- ↑ Ben Parr (September 9, 2009). "BREAKING: Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates". Mashable. http://mashable.com/2009/09/10/facebook-mentions/.
- ↑ See Template:Reply to edit history.
- ↑ Nield, David (Nov 12, 2022). "How to Claim Your YouTube Handle" (in en-US). Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-claim-youtube-handle-set-up/.
- ↑ "Mentions plugin | TinyMCE Documentation". https://www.tiny.cloud/docs/tinymce/6/mentions/.
- ↑ "Mentions| CKEditor 5 Documentation" (in en). https://ckeditor.com/docs/ckeditor5/latest/features/mentions.html.
- ↑ "Comments and threads". https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/discussions/#mentions.
- ↑ "Posting to your profile" (in en-us). https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/posting/#mentions.
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