Why when someone updates their status, via Twitter, there's #?
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11-13-2012, 05:56 AM
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Why when someone updates their status, via Twitter, there's #?
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11-13-2012, 06:04 AM
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its short codes
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11-13-2012, 06:04 AM
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It turns the word into a topic, you know at the side it shows Trending Topics? That's what the # means. So if you're mentioning a band, you'd write it as e.g #paramore to make it a clickable topic.
When someone clicks it, it brings them to a timeline full of tweets that included that topic. It also can serve as a tag; if someone writes something about food, their tag might be something like #foodtweet. Or if you want to include something else that's not relevant to the tweet, such as "watching tv with hot chocolate and hobnobs #imsofat" That isn't really the full purpose of the # symbol though, it's just sort of become that purpose from the people using twitter. So, as an example using both these purposes: "Watching #HoganKnowsBest with the dog and hobnobs and tea, might have a nap soon. #livingthedream haha it's sort of hard to explain, but hope this helps! |
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