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What Does This Symbol Mean Before A Word? - *Capri88* - 01-16-2013 09:40 AM
For ex: #embarrassing, #swag, #peace
- hudaa ღ - 01-16-2013 09:41 AM
It's called a hashtag. It's used on twitter and instagram.
They're used to like name a topic or something, so if someone looks up a certain topic like #summer, they might find something you tweeted or posted about if you used that same hashtag.
- Lefty - 01-16-2013 09:42 AM
It's a hash tag sign..like on Twitter
- m0dernangel - 01-16-2013 09:43 AM
it's called a hashtag, it's a way of indexing Twitter tweets
- Dolly - 01-16-2013 09:47 AM
A hash tag used for trending topics, keywords or phrases
- Matty - 01-16-2013 09:48 AM
The hashtag refers to the topic or theme of the statement before the hashtag, it was a method created by Twitter and adopted by everyone else. On Twitter you can use # to find who's talking about a specific statement or cause.
So if there is a campaign called #iLikePie, then everyone would type their tweet and add #iLikePie at the end and then you can see everyone who's talking about the campaign. (That's just an example).
- Maria - 01-16-2013 09:50 AM
It's for twitter. I hope the guys above have made you understand that.