Hashtag

[Hopkirk]

I don't 'do' Twitter, and I have no intention of starting to.

Why do I regularly hear DJs saying 'hashtag something' when reading twitter messages out?

I find it really irritating.

[bibblebub]

it lets you readily find all entries to do with a particular topic

[Stephen_G]

It's the # symbol, Hopkirk (I do Tweet).

It's when something is Trending (Everyone is talking about it). So, you would have had the hashtag #EngvNor last night

[Hopkirk]

Nope.

I still don't understand.

[bibblebub]

AB has topics in which questions are posted, Twitter doesn't have such categories. So the tweets are just a continuous flow of entries about all different things; hashtags as part of the text lets you find those that are to do with a particular topic.

[Hopkirk]

I think I understand.

Do you have to add a hashtag to your tweets then?

[bibblebub]

no it's not compulsory, a hashtag is just to provide a common word for searching but searches can be done using any words without the # prefix e.g. https://twitter.com/search?q=Hopkirk

[Hopkirk]

Thanks.

I think I will continue giving twitter a big swerve though.

Every time I see any twiitter stuff it looks far too complicated and confusing.

Life's too short.

[jomifl]

I pressed the # key and nothing happened, I think Hopkirk and I need more information..:o)

[bibblebub]

You don't have to tweet but twitter is very useful for finding out up-to-the-minute info on a lot of things e.g. important things like news stories that the usual media choose not to cover or lesser things such as "is there a problem with the company from whom i've ordered goods?" or "what's the latest on that new film release?", and with some of those you'll tend to get information that is much more recent than a convention internet search provides.

[jomifl]

Still doesn't work...

[jomifl]

Ah I've found the link, Ta Bib.