#Hashtags

Hashtags

Spot the hashtag

Hashtags: help you find interesting tweets

Hashtags

Find tweets you want to find People use the hashtag symbol # before relevant

keywords in their Tweet to categorize those Tweets to show more easily in Twitter Search.

Clicking on a hashtagged word in any message shows you all other Tweets in that category.

Hashtags can occur anywhere in the Tweet. Hashtagged words that become very popular are

often Trending Topics.

Source: http://support.twitter.com/entries/49309-what-are-hashtags-symbols

Hashtags

Using hashtags If Tweet with a hashtag on a public account, anyo

ne who does a search for that hashtag may find your Tweet.

Don't #spam #with #hashtags. Don't over-tag a single Tweet. (Best practices recommend using no more than 3 hashtags per Tweet.)

Use hashtags only on Tweets relevant to the topic.

Source: http://support.twitter.com/entries/49309-what-are-hashtags-symbols

Hashtags

Example #edtech #mathchat #sgelection

Hashtags

In summary

Hashtags help you find the tweets you want to find!!

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Additional Resources

http://mashable.com/2009/05/17/twitter-hashtags/

http://support.twitter.com/entries/49309-what-are-hashtags-symbols

http://www.techforluddites.com/2009/02/the-twitter-hash-tag-what-is-it-and-how-do-you-use-it.html

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