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why do people put '# SOMETHING' in their Twitter tweets?
11-10-2012, 01:35 AM
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It's called a "hashtag".

It's used within a message to identify a keyword or topic of interest and make it easier to do a search for it.

Clicking on a hashtagged word in any message shows you all other Tweets in that category.

Hashtags can occur anywhere in the Tweet.

More here:
https://support.twitter.com/articles/493...s-symbols#
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashtag
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