Friday, July 26, 2013

Reading Twitter, The Power of the Hashtag

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But, here I sit with #Nancy and she explains: #FF means that this is a suggestion of who to follow. This is done on Fridays. Hence #FF. For "follow friday!"

So all of those "@thisandthat" are simply suggestions of who to follow.

Thought for the day: Are we using the power of the Hashtag? How would we know?
Feel free to follow me: @spellingcitymay



So what about Thursday?
It's #throwbackthursday in which people publish on twitter old pictures of themselves. I guess it's #TT. But on instagram, it seems to have evolved to #TBT.

2 comments:

BBat50 said...

from: http://www.hashtags.org/platforms/twitter/twitter-for-beginners-basic-guidelines-before-you-start/

4. Twitter has strange jargon.

Because everything in Twitter is done under 140 characters, jargons and special characters are necessary. View a full glossary of Twitter Jargon here. Bookmark this glossary so you can refer to it everytime you feel lost.

For beginners, the most important codes you need to understand are @replies and @mentions, Direct Messages, and Hashtags.

BBat50 said...

http://www.hashtags.org/platforms/twitter/how-to-get-followers-on-twitter/

Good article

http://weblogs.about.com/od/microblogging/tp/How-To-Find-Twitter-Hashtags-To-Amplify-Your-Tweets.htm

https://support.twitter.com/articles/166337-the-twitter-glossary