Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A searchable keyword or sequence of characters prefixed with the pound sign (#), included in a tweet or other electronic communication and indicating the subject matter.
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- noun Internet A
tag embedded in amessage posted on the Twittermicroblogging service, consisting of a word within the messageprefixed with ahash sign (#) . - verb transitive, Internet To label (a message) with a hashtag.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag.
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To create a hashtag simply prefix a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag.
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This hashtag is appearing 2-3 times every second, which should end up producing roughly 200,000 occurrences for a donation of $10,000.
Dave Taylor: Why #beatcancer Doesn't Help Fight Cancer Dave Taylor 2010
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This hashtag is appearing 2-3 times every second, which should end up producing roughly 200,000 occurrences for a donation of $10,000.
Dave Taylor: Why #beatcancer Doesn't Help Fight Cancer Dave Taylor 2010
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This hashtag is appearing 2-3 times every second, which should end up producing roughly 200,000 occurrences for a donation of $10,000.
Dave Taylor: Why #beatcancer Doesn't Help Fight Cancer Dave Taylor 2010
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The #beatcancer hashtag is funded by Paypal: The company is going to donate $0.05/tweet that mentions it to Livestrong.
Dave Taylor: Why #beatcancer Doesn't Help Fight Cancer Dave Taylor 2010
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The #beatcancer hashtag is funded by Paypal: The company is going to donate $0.05/tweet that mentions it to Livestrong.
Dave Taylor: Why #beatcancer Doesn't Help Fight Cancer Dave Taylor 2010
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The #beatcancer hashtag is funded by Paypal: The company is going to donate $0.05/tweet that mentions it to Livestrong.
Dave Taylor: Why #beatcancer Doesn't Help Fight Cancer Dave Taylor 2010
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This led to the usual recurcive navel gazing about how an India-related hashtag is trending on Twitter and Economic Times even did a story on it.
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Generally, a hashtag is used to increase your Twitter visibility, promote an idea, theme or event and should only be used if your Tweet adds value to that specific topic.
ecbrenner commented on the word hashtag
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"Hashtags are a pretty simple concept that really enhance the Twitter experience. They enable easy categorization of tweets for effective future searching. That means that if for example, you are tweeting about the iPhone, you simply insert a # before the word iPhone. Anyone who then searches hashtags.org or Twitter search, for the #iPhone term, will come up with your tweet as well as all tweets on the subject." --hizfuld, "Ten Things you Must Know before Using Twitter"
April 14, 2009
sionnach commented on the word hashtag
Or hashtag could be that special day when you just make a complete hames of everything you put your hand to.
April 14, 2009
dinkum commented on the word hashtag
WORD: hashtag
DEFINITION: Another name for the octothorpe. See also the Wikipedia page for hashtag:
<< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashtag >>
EXAMPLE: ' From the Times Literary Supplement, Sept. 30:
' Twitter users may not know it but they are likely to be addicts of the octothorpe , a symbol with a Latin provenance. Now more commonly known as the hashtag, the octothorpe first served as an abbreviation of "libra pondo" ("a pound by weight") in medieval England. The "lb" was written with a tilde just above the mid-height of the letters to signify a contraction, and was thence corrupted into "#" by rushing scribes. "Pound" later became "number" before evolving into a variety of different signifiers, including a copy-editor's space, a chess player's checkmate and a Tweeter's keyword. How it came to be known as the octothorpe is quite another matter. '
--- Reprinted in the Wall Street Journal. "Notable & Quotable." October 28, 2013. (Page A15).
November 1, 2013