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Explain the @ or # in front of nouns on Twitter (ie, @Twitter)?
10-13-2012, 04:13 AM
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@ is used when you are replying to or mentioning someone else in twitter (if you want to see if someone has mentioned you in their tweets, click on @mentions in your home page) . While # is used to make the keyword following it as a topic of discussion. For example #Egypt is a topic of discussion. If you search Egypt in twitter, all the tweets that have used # Egypt will be in the result...
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[] - Stephen - 10-13-2012, 04:13 AM
[] - Who is on first! - 10-13-2012, 04:13 AM
[] - SPM - 10-13-2012 04:13 AM
[] - Umang - 10-13-2012, 04:13 AM

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