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In the early days, hashtags were only used by the social media early adopters. As understanding grew of how hashtags work, they became widely embraced by the marketing and advertising industry. Today, ...

Hashtags are more mainstream than ever, but they’re morphing into something way weirder than the search and discovery tools they were meant to be. They can be super annoying when people clutter their ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. If you’re new to Twitter, or even if you’ve been using it for years, you may wonder what all those words preceded by the # sign are. They ...

This past week, countless users have taken to social media to discuss the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown at the hands of a police officer and the ensuing protests and violence in Ferguson ...

Whether you’re a conservative or a liberal, you’ve most likely come across a political hashtag in an article, a tweet, or a personal story shared on Facebook. Hashtags are functional tags widely used ...

It seems inevitable that with widespread social change comes the violent and bigoted pushback from those afraid of straying from the status quo. And in the age of the Internet, conflict comes with ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Hashtags have become a standard in ...

Andreea S. Calude receives funding from The Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Grant Fund. David Trye receives funding from the University of Waikato PhD Doctoral Scholarship. University of Waikato ...

Eugenia Ha Rim Rho does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

YouTube is launching a new type of search results page that appears when users look for videos by hashtag. YouTube first introduced the ability to search by hashtag in 2018, but it never worked ...