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Twitter help! Will give BEST answer!? - hollowcoil988 - 10-12-2012 08:00 AM
Ok im lost on these trending topics on twitter. What exactly are they? and how do you start a trending topic? And what does it mean when people put the # symbol and then words after it? It has something to do with the trending topics but i dont know what. Please help!
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- Sators - 10-12-2012 08:09 AM
The # sign signifies a group of messages, or trending topic, for example #yahoo. The trending topics are statistically what are the most popular words or topics in the Twitter community at that moment.
- S - 10-12-2012 08:09 AM
Trending topics are what is being talked about around Twitter by all of the users. You can't really start a trending topic unless you get a majority of Twitter users talking about the same thing. # is just a way to help find these hot topics quickly by search.
- Mahadewa - 10-12-2012 08:09 AM
Trending topics in Twitter are Topics (basically words) that are currently mentioned 'a lot' in Twitter Public Timeline.
How does a topic become a trend ? Well, simple, because a lot of people are twittering about it (mentioning the word in their status update).
The # symbol is called Hashtag. A hashtag is a keyword or keywords which is prefixed by a hash symbol (#), and it is usually used to mark a tweet (a status update), to tag it, that it belongs to a category or more.
It doesn't have anything to do with Trending Topics, it's just that most topics that people tweet about are using Hashtag.