Comments on: Whats the deal with #whatever on twitter? http://www.twittmeme.com/whats-the-deal-with-whatever-on-twitter/88 Sun, 09 Nov 2008 05:47:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: chachafance http://www.twittmeme.com/whats-the-deal-with-whatever-on-twitter/88/comment-page-1#comment-60 chachafance Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:54:51 +0000 http://www.twittmeme.com/whats-the-deal-with-whatever-on-twitter/88#comment-60 Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag. Hashtags were developed as a means to create "groupings" on Twitter, without having to change the basic service. The hash symbol is a convention borrowed primarily from IRC channels, and later from Jaiku's channels. Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They’re like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag.

Hashtags were developed as a means to create “groupings” on Twitter, without having to change the basic service. The hash symbol is a convention borrowed primarily from IRC channels, and later from Jaiku’s channels.

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