5 Things You Need to Know About Twitter #Hashtags
For example, did you know that Twitter didn’t invest hashtags? User invented Twitter hashtags. Google employee Chris Messina is credited as the “hashtag Godfather” for an August, 2007 tweet in which he...
View ArticleHere’s A New Way You’ll Soon Get Targeted For Ads: Your Hashtags
They’re all based on social gestures and activities, each targeted to people, whether friends or birds of a feather, who might share similar interests. Now, a company has come up with a new way of...
View ArticleHashtags motivate half of consumers to explore new content
Over half of Twitter users in RadiumOne’s survey said they use hashtags on a regular basis. Furthermore, 70% of those Twitter users use hashtags from their mobile devices. Of the 494 survey...
View ArticleFacebook code hints that hashtags could be coming to the service
Developer Tom Waddington from Cut Out + Keep, who has discovered a number of unreleased Facebook features in the past, today pointed us to a mention of the word “hashtag” in Facebook’s Javascript SDK....
View ArticleHow Brands Use Facebook: Hashtags, Content Types, and User Engagement
That percentage reflects a rapid adoption of the tactic by marketers, taking into account that the tags were rolled out by Facebook only on June 12. However, brand posts containing hashtags are not...
View ArticleShould You Use Hashtags on Facebook? Here’s What the Research Says
And that makes sense – hashtags can be confusing as they’re not words within a sentence, necessarily, but topic matches that help improve discoverability. Some people think tagging every word will...
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