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why do people put '# SOMETHING' in their Twitter tweets? - - Joseph - - 11-10-2012 01:27 AM
for example
#BBC
- GeneL - 11-10-2012 01:35 AM
It's called a "hashtag".
It's used within a message to identify a keyword or topic of interest and make it easier to do a search for it.
Clicking on a hashtagged word in any message shows you all other Tweets in that category.
Hashtags can occur anywhere in the Tweet.
More here:
https://support.twitter.com/articles/49309-what-are-hashtags-symbols#
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashtag
- Jackie G - 11-10-2012 01:35 AM
Ok not a 100% sure but i think its used so that they can reference it to another conversation or link inside another twitter account....
- Michelle - 11-10-2012 01:35 AM
Its a hash tag it is like when something well known is going on like say a episode of jersey shore everyone puts #jerzday or something somewhere on your page their should be trending topics and if a lot of people are #jerzday then it would be a TRENDING TOPIC and you click on it or search the hash tag to see what people are saying about the specific topic