Want To Be Famous? #Hashtags History

The hashtag is perhaps one of the greatest emerging and modern phenomena of our day. It comprises the utility of compartmentalized and categorical trending topics on to a digital social medium. The function of such a utility is to orient a particular group to a particular issue often revolving around a real-time trend. The following will examine the benefits of such a utility and of course the negatives.

Prior to any real discussion on the hashtag, it may beneficial to provide exposition in its use. Its main structure is a pound sign: #, followed by phrase with no spaces for grammar: #ilovethisclass. This structure allows for a brief explanation for the subject matter to which the hashtag is attached to, for instance on a tweet by way of twitter or after an instagrammed image, it helps tie the image to the meaning an individual is trying to convey. Often this hashtag is general and other people have hashtagged something with similar content, which often leads to a link displaying all the tweets or instagrams that are hashtagged by said hashtag. It’s like a passive chat room for content already posted.

In the early days, hashtags were only used by the social media early adopters. As understanding grew of how hashtags work, they became widely embraced by the marketing and advertising industry. Today, the hashtag is part of pop culture.

Most people relate a hashtag with social media. Some see them as annoying disruptions to perfectly logical discussions. Others see hashtags as a way to express the thought of the moment.

Hashtags are an efficient method to find content related to specific topics, as well as the people talking about those topics.

Just as searches are conducted on platforms other than Google, Bing, and Yahoo, search also happens on social platforms. People search every day on Pinterest, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, YouTube, and other social platforms using words and hashtags with success.

They are a new trend and let me know whether you follow up with the trends or not.
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