Question: when Twittering, I often see these words with a hash in front of them in other peoples tweets. What’s this all about?
Answer: these are called hashtags. Since Twitter does not provide any means to categorize or group the tweets, the twittercommunity started making use of hashtags to group tweets. A hashtag is simply a keyword or abbreviation, preceeded by a hash (or pound sign: #), for instance #icantinternet could be used for all tweets about this blog. Or #bushfire can be used to group all tweets about the Australian bushfires. Something that could never be done without the hashtags.
[ad]So how can you find all those tweats then?
Easy, take a look at http://search.twitter.com, and search for the hashtag of your choice. Thanks to the enormous popularity of Twitter, there are also numerous apps out there on the internet that help you with the use of hashtags, such as http://hashtags.org
You can follow me on twitter via http://twitter.com/icantinternet
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I was wondering what that hash mark meant. Thanks for answering my question.
You’re welcome, glad I could help
That was some very nice info. i’ll too write about it on my other blog.
yeah it took me a while to learn this but I believe it really helps to find the right kind of people to read your blogs. thanks. my friend.