Hashtags are words or acronyms that begin with the number (#) sign.  Twitter hashtags like #followfriday help spread information on Twitter while also helping to organize it.

Hashtags are a great way for users to group tweets together by subject. They are used when many people are tweeting about the same topic or event.  To see some different hashtags, log on to Twitter and view Twitter’s trending topic list.  At least one hash tag is on this trending topics list.

Before using a hasht...

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