Friday, March 1, 2013

Hash Tag

Here i explained about Hashtag that is mostly used in Twitter. Hash Tag is the word prefixed with symbol #. Hashtag was originally developed to create groups to track a particular topic. In twitter, hash tag is a way for people to search for tweets that have a common topic. It is nicely explained in detail with an example, that how can one implement Hashtag in their tweet?

Description:
Hashtag was originally developed to create groups to track a particular topic. In twitter, hash tag is a way for people to search for tweets that have a common topic.



Hashtag (#) allow you to create group or communities of people interested in the same topic by making it easier to find so that they can share info related to it. Any combination of characters prefixed by a pound sign (#) is a Hashtag. If Hashtag is promoted by individuals, can attract more individual users to discussion using the Hashtag. Hashtag becomes very popular on Twitter. Google+, Twitter, Youtube and some other website supports Hashtag.


How to use Hashtag?
Any user can create it by simply adding hash sign(#) as prefix to a word. For example, in twitter if i tweet, that #GooglePlusTips launched now. Here i have used # sign as a prefix for GooglePlusTips. Now people read this and when they will post something about this, by adding #GooglePlusTips to their tweet. If i search #GooglePlusTips in twitter, then i will get all update from people about that. It is type of metadata tag.Here remember one thing if someone post using without # sign as a prefix in their tweet then it will not displayed in a search result. Good thing about the hash tag is that we wrote tweet without putting the word #GooglePlusTips in the main message, it will still show in search result because of the hash tag.