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What's up with the '#' on Tweets (Twitter)?
11-09-2012, 08:42 PM
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What's up with the '#' on Tweets (Twitter)?
Why do Twitterers put a number sign (#) in front of some of their tweets?
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11-09-2012, 08:50 PM
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Those are called hashtags and allow you to group tweets about a common subject shared by many tweeters. There are other uses for hashtags.

http://mashable.com/2009/05/17/twitter-hashtags/
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