Sometimes when we're on twitter, we find tweepost with words such as letters front there is the symbol #. Who's the words we know till with only stands alone. For example hashtag #moveit and #ff.
what the hashtag?
The # symbol, called a hashtag, is used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet. It was created organically by Twitter users as a way to categorize messages. (http://support.twitter.com)
Hash tags are words and phrases beginning with a hash symbol (#), with a few words that connect, like: # ESue346022 is my favorite PC games.(http://id.wikipedia.org)
Hashtags: helping you find interesting Tweets
- People use the hashtag symbol # before relevant keywords in their Tweet to categorize those Tweets to show more easily in Twitter Search.
- Clicking on a hashtagged word in any message shows you all other Tweets in that category.
- Hashtags can occur anywhere in the Tweet.
- Hashtagged words that become very popular are often Trending Topics.
If you find difficulty in interpreting these hashtag, you can visit http://tagdef.com/. On this site you can type the word you want to search. then tagdef will finding for you.
Example # ff that after I was looking tagdef find hashtag 472. There was also explained that the # FF it is short for # FollowFriday.
