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When on twitter, why do people put a # at the end of something? What does that even mean?
10-01-2012, 02:49 AM
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It's called a hashtag. You put it on words that say the topic of the tweet. That way, if you want to search for tweets about something specific, you can just search for #that_thing and you won't get tweets that mention the word in passing, only ones actually relevant to you.
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