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What does 'hashtag' mean? - James - 02-19-2013 09:14 AM
On twitter
- Evan - 02-19-2013 09:22 AM
Hashtags are octothorpes, they don't mean anything.
- Jamie Glover - 02-19-2013 09:22 AM
A tag embedded in a message posted on the Twitter microblogging service, consisting of a word within the message prefixed with a hash sign.
- Rain - 02-19-2013 09:22 AM
A hashtag is a word or a phrase prefixed with the symbol #, a form of metadata tag. Also, short messages on microblogging social networking services such as Twitter, Tout, identi.ca, or Google+ may be tagged by including one or more with multiple words concatenated, e.g.:
#Wikipedia is an #encyclopedia
Hashtags provide a means of grouping such messages, since one can search for the hashtag and get the set of messages that contain it.