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what does it mean when you put a pound sign in front of a word? - Dashinghandsomeness - 03-24-2014 10:27 AM
like #this.
i don't get it...
- Kaly Sullivan - 03-24-2014 10:33 AM
It's to tag something automatically. So if you want to mention the world cup you can say #worldcup and twitter or whatever will automatically tag it as a world cup related post. Then when other people look for world cup related topics, your post will come up.
- zirp - 03-24-2014 10:38 AM
That's not a pound sign, but something "tweeps" call a "hashtag". I think it makes tweets with the same topic automatically searchable and countable - like when an earthquake happens, 2 minutes later some website will show that 541.203 tweets about earthquake have been sent.
A poundsign looks like a capital L with a "=" through it (from the latin word for pound "Libra" )