Everywhere you look, on various social media sites, you can spot one popular symbol – the hashtag. This pound sign has become ubiquitous over the past decade and is still used to this day. But what ...

Accusations about anti-Semitism at Occupy Wall Street took a turn for the ridiculous this week when a blogger for the right-wing site Pajamas Media wrote that the hashtag symbol worn by many ...

Social media has reached a certain level of popularity that is has also become so powerful nowadays. It is not just a special symbol for number or pound, but also a way to make a certain thing trend ...

Back in 2007, Twitter user @chrismessina thought the hashtag would be a good way to make groups. He originally tweeted #barcamp - an international network of user-generated conferences primarily ...

Instagram’s Threads app has been duping Twitter/X in a number of ways, and today it’s adding one more feature that’s been core to the Twitter experience for years: hashtags. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg ...

The hashtag symbol (#) is a way for people on twitter to categorize certain keywords. It not only helps when people are searching for certain trending topics but also displays all the other Tweets ...

The hashtag symbol, or #, has recently been named the UK’s children’s word of the year. See coverage of this story here. Children’s dictionary writers at Oxford University Press analysed 120,421 ...

Rand Fishkin calls the "hash" or "pound symbol" a "powerful SEO tool" that many experts rarely use. Demonstrating ways to use it in his video series Whiteboard Friday, Fishkin says that "search ...