How to Use Twitter Hashtags

Would you like to know how to use Twitter hashtags? If the mass of information on Twitter seems overwhelming, you can use hashtags to organize what you tweet and to find tweets about topics that interest you. Placing a hashtag symbol or a pound sign in front of a keyword allows Twitter users to search for and follow tweets on a specific topic. It's not difficult for a new user to get on board and begin using Twitter hashtags. Read on to learn how to use Twitter hashtags to follow conversations on Twitter.

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In this video, Chris Gore explains what Twitter hashtags are and how to use them by example. He says that his mother calls the pound sign the "tic-tac-toe" sign.

Step 1: Know Twitter

Without understanding what Twitter is about, it is difficult to understand what Twitter hashtags are all about, so the first step to learning how to use Twitter hashtags is to know how to tweet. Twitter is a social networking site that permits users to send 140 character messages, called tweets, to a group of other users.http://www.140characters.com/2009/01/30/how-twitter-was-born/ You can also send private messages to users who have elected to receive tweets from you.

Step 2: Use Hashtags

Hashtags are a Twitter community convention that makes it easy to locate conversations about specific topics. Placing a hash symbol (#) tags in front of a term tags it and allows it to be tracked by other members of the Twitter community. For example, the hashtag #followfriday is used to identify twitter users that other users suggest you follow.http://mashable.com/2009/03/06/twitter-followfriday/ You can include the hashtag at the front of the tweet, at the end of the tweet, or even in the middle. The important thing to remember is not to leave a space between the hash symbol and the keyword.

Step 3: Track Hashtags

There are several ways to track hashtags on Twitter. If you know the hashtag you're looking for, you can search for tweets that include it by using the Twitter search box.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjx_1Y9NmmY You can use hashtags.org to track all the tweets that include a given hashtags that have been tweeted by users who are followed by hashtags.org. You can follow @hashtags.org on twitter, and hashtags.org will follow you back. You can go to www.hashtags.org and search for tweets that include a specific hashtag, or just browse the list of hashtags others have been using.

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