The hashtag is no longer a frivolous addition to a social media post. Now it’s a means for businesses and organizations to define their brand and engage with their customer base on social media.

Twitter has started testing out a new feature that would make it easier for users to learn the context behind trending hashtags, according to a report in today’s Wall Street Journal. The Journal made ...

On Twitter, hashtags are a powerful, simple tool for tracking topics, communities, live events or breaking news. They make you findable, and they allow on-the-fly collaboration. When you insert one of ...

Ten years ago, the first hashtag came to be, courtesy of Twitter. Did anyone ever expect it would become such a ubiquitous part of our daily conversations or that we would be making the hashtag symbol ...

Today’s entrepreneurs have to start businesses in a culture of intense social media activity. In case you haven’t noticed, this social media thing is kind of a big deal. One thing that every social ...

The # symbol is the pound sign (as in 5# of meat) or the number sign (as in #5). The first time I heard the word "hashtag" was on a TV car commercial. The person in the ad was a young female adult who ...

While you can use Twitter’s search tool to find specific people, companies, and their messages (“tweets”) on the service, Hashtags allow users to sort topics into useful categories to revisit later.