Number Sign # Hashmark In Twitter

If you have been using using Twitter a lot you sometimes see people who post a tweet using a hash symbol (#) before a few words and might have wondered what it means and the purpose of it. The hash mark number sign (#) before a word in a post allows you to tag that post for that word much like tagging a post in Wordpress. In order to get tracked via a hash tag number sign, follow http://twitter.com/hashtags user. Once you’re following them, every time you make a post in Twitter and tag it with a hash mark it will then show up as a real-time post on http://www.hashtags.org. If you visit hashtags.org, you can click on any tag and it will show you all of the posts that have been tagged with that keyword. You can also subscribe to any twitter updates that contain a tag keyword by posting “follow #keywordtag” (without the quotes) in Twitter. Twitter only allows you to post 140 characters in a post so you should be pretty selective when using the hash mark number sign for keywords mostly associated with the post.

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