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What is a #Hashtag?

The Twitter World uses “#“signs in front of “Keywords” or “Groups” and “Locations“ 

For Example: recently Thin Air Summit held a conference and called their Hashtag #TAS08 for Thin Air Summit 2008.

These so called # groups are called “Hashtags“ 

Hashtags by definition are used to create real time track records of creating groups on twitter. Placing the # sign in front of keywords or targeted groups, makes it easier to track all conversations in the twitter timeline via search.

Hashtags were most notable during the San Diego forest fires in 2007 when Nate Ritter used the hashtag “#sandiegofire” to identify his updates related to the disaster.

Some links to check out…….

http://hashtags.org/  is the website to track real time Twitter Hashtags being invented/used.

http://twitter.com/hashtags is the twitter account to follow in order to submit your new hashtags.

The famous  Chris Messina who started the idea of using Hashtags on twitter as a new means of grouping found here on his blog.

 Youtube video of Bwana explaining what is a hashtag.

 

Is #Hashtags dying?

Ok now that we are all caught up on hashtags, lets look deeper shall we.

Matt Browne wrote a great article on the Death of Hashtags on Twitter. He did an interesting search on different hashtags and found that by searching the actual words created the most reach of all.

Example:

  • #barcampsd
  • #bcsd08
  • barcampsd
  • barcamp san diego  <—-Ding Ding Ding, The Winner!!  
All in all the #Hashtag Craze could be dying but most Notorious Twitters and Conventions still use them nowadays and if they gain a more devoted and popular following spreading this crazy, you soon might see a huge swing in this change.
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