Dude 1: "From the safety of my sofa and anonymous Twitter account, I support free speech #JeSuisCharlie"
Dude 2: "Man, that kind of hashtaggery really gets my goat!"
A community on twitter that’s all about popularity. People play Hashtags depending on how popular the person who started it is. They create cliques to try and trend on twitter, often using fake accounts.
Users of online social networks, who frequently engage other people in various kinds of online word games, always identified with a clever or descriptive hashtag that identifies a stream of similar messages. Users wanting to play, simply follow the gametag, and append it to their messages whenever they want to submit an entry to the game stream.
Some Hashtaggers have created hundreds of gametags, including very popularones like #NewOscarAwards and #ballonBoyBookTitles.
When one social media user places a hashtag (#) before a word or string of words in order to make it a 'trending topic', and another social media user antagonizes the 'topic' in the form of his/her own hashtag topic
Person 1 (on twitter): "Listen to song 'abc'. #song'abc'isawesome"
Person2 (on twitter): "Song 'abc' is really overplayed. #song'abc'sucks"
Person1 (on twitter): "Wow @Person2, straight hashtagony!"