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What does the "#" sign mean on twitter? - Don - 09-30-2012 05:26 AM
- The Amazing Sammy - 09-30-2012 05:34 AM
It's a hash tag. An easy way to organize a topic between users. You can use them at will. Use your own, or tags others have made up. It's pretty cool.
- Maria and George - 09-30-2012 05:34 AM
It means Discover.
- roundspoon664 - 09-30-2012 05:34 AM
In Twitter, # called 'hashtag', such as #twitterer, #teamyuna, #newlook. It is a label on Twitter to aid searching and used to mark keywords.
For example, if you are posting a job on Twitter, you may add a #Jobs hashtag, so that your tweet would show up in searches for people who are looking for a job. Hashtags are not used often enough by corporate America on Twitter, as they can drastically increase the number of non-followers who read your tweets (which is one of the keys to get more followers).
Even though these work extremely well, you should generally limit yourself to using only 1 or 2 hashtags to each post, because excessive tags are annoying and a turn-off for most users.