A hashtag is a word or a short phrase prefixed with the symbol #.
The purpose of the hashtag is to categorize topics, bring ideas together,
inspire exchange and encourage others to join in.
In 2009 Twitter began to hyperlink all
hashtags to search results containing all recent posts mentioning either the
hashtag or the standard spelling of such words, provided that such words are
written in the same order of characters. This was accentuated in 2010 with the
introduction of 'Trending Topics' on the Twitter front page, as highly
trafficked hashtags are featured as Trending Topics.
Hashtags can be used on several platforms such as Twitter,
Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, YouTube or Google+, but NOT on
Facebook.
Many people, but also several companies, probably are not aware of
it and use hashtags on Facebook mostly because their Twitter, Instagram and
Facebook accounts are linked and ultimately set up to auto sync. While the use
of hashtags make sense on Twitter and Instagram it does not make sense on
Facebook making your status update unreadable and quite annoying. Examples:
Remember; social media networking sites are all different.
Facebook differs from Twitter, which differs from LinkedIn, which differs from
Pinterest, and so on. They are all unique in their style, tone of voice and
their demographics. And they all use their own 'language' and formats. Having
synced accounts might save you time but won't make it easy for your fans :)
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