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'''Hashtags''' are an Internet phenomenon that was popularized on Twitter, a micro blogging service.
'''Hashtags''' are a #word or #PhaseWithoutSpaces prefixed with a hash symnbol (also known as a number or pound sign), used to tag messages, images and videos, making them searchable.
People add a #word or #PhraseWithoutSpaces to a tweet and precede it with a hashtag, also known as a number or pound sign.
Someone who wants to locate tweets related to Encyclopedia Dramatica could search for the #EncyclopediaDramatica hashtag.
Doing so allows others to locate tweets with a particular hashtag, such as #KillYourself.
Their use was popularized on Twitter, a microblogging service, and spread to Facebook and other social networks.


Once hashtags established themselves on Twitter, their use spread to Facebook and other social media networks.
Popular trends can be identified when enough people use a particular hashtag, a process known as trending.
With everybody adding hashtags to their posts, images and videos, trends could be identified.
For example, when the media got word of a racist tweet by public relations executive Justine Sacco, news spread fast and the hashtag #HasJustineLandedYet was trending within hours.
When a large number of people use a common hashtag, often across multiple social media networks, this is known as trending.
A recent example is #HasJustineLandedYet, we'll get back to that later in the article.


== Hashtag suspense ==
== Hashtag suspense ==

Revision as of 19:37, 9 January 2014

Hashtags are a #word or #PhaseWithoutSpaces prefixed with a hash symnbol (also known as a number or pound sign), used to tag messages, images and videos, making them searchable. Someone who wants to locate tweets related to Encyclopedia Dramatica could search for the #EncyclopediaDramatica hashtag. Their use was popularized on Twitter, a microblogging service, and spread to Facebook and other social networks.

Popular trends can be identified when enough people use a particular hashtag, a process known as trending. For example, when the media got word of a racist tweet by public relations executive Justine Sacco, news spread fast and the hashtag #HasJustineLandedYet was trending within hours.

Hashtag suspense

Embarrassing hashtags

Hashtag baby

Hashtag Jamerson is the name of a baby girl who's parents spend too much time on the internet. Either that or they hate their child so much that an abortion wasn't good enough. Until their child is old enough to go for a new high score, expect that her parents will continue profiting from the publicity as they continue neglecting their child, leaving her alone in a crib while they play Farmville.

Anonymous pranks

Hashtags

Hashtags are a new internet phenomenon, popularized by users of twitter and facebook. --Cunt 09:47, 21 December 2013 (EST)

Social Media

From this we can use simple logic to infer that hashtags are for jerks.

Jimmy Fallon

Marketing

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YouTube

Hashtag with Jimmy Fallon & Justin Timberlake
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