This is a guest post by Jonathon Youshaei. A tech entrepreneur and journalist, Youshaei has worked at Google and YouTube. He also contributes to The Huffington Post. “What the heck is this pound sign ...

One of the best things about Twitter is the hashtag. Not the ironic, silly hashtag, but the functional hashtag. The hashtag that becomes a kind of metadata. The hashtag, that is, that allows people to ...

YouTube is embracing the hashtag. The company has been quietly working on a new feature that allows users to better discover content using hashtags -- either by clicking on a hashtag on YouTube or by ...

The American Dialect Society deemed "hashtag" the word of the year. NPR digital culture correspondent Laura Sydell and NPR senior strategist Andy Carvin explain how the social media tool works and why ...

Today is the 10th anniversary of Chris Messina suggesting that the pound symbol could be used to tag and organize tweets, thereby tagging and organizing people, ideas, and images. Can you believe it?

People are stuck inside thanks to shutdowns to stop the coronavirus — and they’re turning to social media to vent. Probably the most popular coronavirus-related hashtag on the internet right now, this ...

The hashtag has revolutionized punctuation. Rather than having to rely on traditional question marks and exclamation points, tweeters are free to punctuate their musings in infinite ways.

From the #ShotOniPhone challenge to your favorite Instagram model’s description of their latest photo shoot, hashtags help guide those who would absolutely love your content straight to your page. Let ...

The state Legislative Building in Olympia. The state Senate is considering broader use of social media hashtags. Steve Bloom Staff file Some members of the state Senate don’t want to let a good ...