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The term “Throwback” is used to post retrospectives on social media. Individuals, content creators and businesses are taking advantage of the trend.
Throwback: here’s what the social media term means
“Throwback” is English for “looking back.” In social media, the term has been a well-established trend for about 10 years.
- The social media term is popularly used as a hashtag. It is especially used as an abbreviation: tbt.
- tbt is short for “Throwback Thursday.” This hashtag is probably the most popular use of the throwback trend. Here, as the name suggests, older content is posted on Thursdays.
- Active social media users regularly upload retrospectives. Here, the retrospectives do not refer to last week or the week before last; instead, older posts are in demand.
- Mostly it’s throwbacks to vacations, moments with friends, or other photos that you remember fondly. Anything you’ve captured in the past that still brings a smile to your face, you can post as part of this trend.
