We know what @you #tag: does the dual role affect hashtag adoption?

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The Tweets They Are a-Changin: Evolution of Twitter Users and Behavior (2014, background): “Recently, researchers have worked to gain a better understanding of how users socialize with others in the network: the conversation generated by mentioning another user (Macskassy 2012), and the top trending topics generated using hashtag (Huang, Thornton, and Efthimiadis 2010; Yang et al. 2012).”
A temporal model of text periodicities using Gaussian Processes (2013, background): “(Yang et al., 2012) studies the dual role of hashtags, of bookmarks of content and symbols of community membership, in the context of hashtag adoption.”
Sampling Content from Online Social Networks (2015, methodology): “Hashtags in Twitter are used to refer to current events or news stories [Yang et al. 2012b], and users who comment on a certain event/news story often use one or two speciﬁc hashtags.”