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Twitter wants to end the @ and #.

WEB - The information officer of Twitter considers that arobases and word - sharps are difficult to understand for new users ..." # @ Twitter without sharp word ? # scandal " twittos The community is in turmoil. Twitter is about to hide arobases and hastags .As always with this kind of rumor, nothing is official .But at the turn of a phrase at a conference in Denver, Vivian Schiller , head of IT at Twitter, has implied that the "@" and "#" signs would be difficult to understand for novice users .And therefore would affect the expansion strategy of the microblogging platform .Never without my hashtagAccording to BuzzFeed , Twitter would make invisible " scaffolding " of Twitter and sent the "@" and "#" to their sad condition of source code. To prove his point, the site has posted a screenshot of a user of the new version of Twitter for Android where arobases disappeared capture.Of course , some users attached to the traditions of the Web is moved are on Twitter. Vivian Schiller responded and denied future disappearances said indications which identify a user or a recurring theme.Twitter followers fear that their favorite social network eventually look like if Facebook clears arobases and hashtags .But Facebook has adopted the word sharps there a few weeks.

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