

Your picture is posted just like every other photo you’ve ever shared, but labeled so that the network knows to display it when anyone wants to search for images of you only living once. Let’s say you tagged a picture of yourself living dangerously with the hashtag #YOLO ( cause you a ba d mamma jamma). When someone searches for said hashtag they will then be able to see all the posts that have been tagged, sorted into a single stream. Simply place that number sign (#) in front of a word or string of characters (no spaces or punctuation) to tell the social network that your post, picture or video should be archived with all other content tagged with that specific hashtag. Thanks Wikipedia! But what does that mean for the rest of us who glazed over at “microblogging”?Ī hashtag is a symbol that social media networks use to allow users to categorize their content. “A hashtag is a type of metadata tag used on social networks such as Twitter and other microblogging services, allowing users to apply dynamic, user-generated tagging which makes it possible for others to easily find messages with a specific theme or content it allows easy, informal markup of folk taxonomy without need of any formal taxonomy or markup language.” When I was a boy we call it the pound sign…. Nonprofit Marketing with Purpose Facebook Group.Construction Marketing with Purpose Podcast.
