Why Use Hashtags - AllTwitter http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter The Unofficial Twitter Resource Copyright 2013 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:00:06 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 75% Of Social Media Users Now Use Hashtags [STUDY]

What was once an informal convention confined to geeks, developers, and early adopters (pretty much one and the same, eh?), has become a mainstream element of social media for the masses.

A new study by RadiumOne reveals that a full three quarters of social media users employ hashtags.

But it gets even more surprising.

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]]> Allison Stadd http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/hashtags-2_b38932#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/hashtags-2_b38932 http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/?p=38932 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:00:31 +0000 Twitter 101: Why Use Hashtags? A hashtag is really just a way of categorizing your tweets so that they are part of a narrowed conversation and they’re easier to find in Twitter search. Of course, there’s a lot more to it than that, or else hashtags wouldn’t have been the most popular trending topic in 2010.
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]]> Lauren Dugan http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/twitter-101-why-use-hashtags_b2571#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/twitter-101-why-use-hashtags_b2571 http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/?p=2571 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:10:15 +0000