By Frances Caballo Hashtags seem to be everywhere these days. You can find them on billboards, in ads, and as promotions for athletic games. I remember being at a concert a few years ago. Someone tapped me on my shoulder and asked me what a hashtag was. That doesn’t...
Have you ever taken part in a Twitter chat? A Twitter chat is a live, scheduled event organized around a hashtag, which is a bit of metadata that people add to their posts by putting a pound sign in front of a keyword, like this: #books. Using hashtags allows others...
Do you use Twitter hashtags? Those funny, frequently unreadable letters with a “hash” (# or pound sign) in front? You should. Here’s why. Hashtags are tags we add to our own content on Twitter. They: become a form of metadata for tweets self-identify...
