Twitter question ?!?!?

[Nicholas]

Why is the hash tag used so much on twitter? I don't use it in my tweets an kinda feel left out

[Lauren]

Hash tags are used so you can see similar tweets.. If you click on the hash tag it'll send you to a page where all the tweets have that hash tag. But you can also make some up and have fun with it. At first i didn't exactly know how to hash tag but you get the hang of it.

[Mike Smythe]

hashtags are used as categories for tweets...this is useful when you want to see all the tweets for a specific subject

you can use it so you can put it under that "category"


for example, if you search for #YOLO or #KONY2012 you can see all the tweets regarding that subject

[Mositer]

well its for making it a trend or highlighting it.