If you have been on Twitter, you may have seen a "hashtag." To put it simply, a hash tag is simply a way for people to search for tweets that have a common topic and to begin a conversation. For example, if you search on #LOST (or #Lost or #lost, because it's not
case-sensitive), you'll
get a list of tweets related to the TV show. What you won't
get are tweets that say "I lost my
wallet yesterday" because "lost" isn't preceded by the hash tag.
Hashtags believed to have originated on Twitter but, interestingly enough, it is not a Twitter function. Some believe it began when the
broken plane luckily landed in the Hudson River in
early 2009, some Twitter user wrote a post and added #flight1549 to it. I have no idea who this
person was, but somebody else would have read it and when he posted something about the incident, added #flight1549 to HIS tweet. For something like this, where tweets would have been flying
fast and furiously, it wouldn't have taken
long for this hash tag to go viral and suddenly thousands of people posting about it would have added it to their tweets as well. Then, if you wanted info on the situation, you could do a search on "#flight1549" and see everything that people had written about it.
Take this ashtag for example: #worstjobeverhad. This Hash tag would compel many others to share the worst jobs they've ever had, thus contributing to a fun conversation. It can be used for specific searches or
individual twitters that begin them for their followers.
For further clarification on hashtags and for
everything for
everything else Twitter please visit: TwitterFanZone.com
