October 18, 2011
Seems like every other week Google is rolling out new features and enhancements to Google Plus. It has now added real-time searching and support for hashtags to its ever-expanding social networking site. These enhancements come a month after Google introduced its search feature for Google+. These two new features are designed to make the search process more interactive.
September 20, 2011
If you hang out on Twitter a lot, you might have noticed the occasional moment of Twitter Rage. It could be a simple thing, such as one of your friends venting about their latest parking fine or you may have noticed a larger movement of people seriously angry about something important. If you’re really lucky, you may have witnessed a celebrity getting all riled up over something completely silly.
September 6, 2011
If you’ve been on Twitter a while and tried out all of the toys, you might have noticed one little tool missing – group chat. While some of you might be wondering how on earth that works or why you’d want it, some of you will already be itching to know more. Essentially, Joint is a service which lets you turn a Twitter hashtag into an off-Twitter chatroom.
August 9, 2011
Hashtags, a creation of Twitter, are keywords highlighted in a post utilizing the pound symbol (‘#’). These keywords are often used on a massive scale, leading to trending tweets which reveal the world’s hottest topics. That’s all well and good, but what happens if you don’t know what those hashtags mean?
August 11, 2010
Twitter hashtags can be used for various purposes: you can leverage them to file and organize your tweets, record your weight, contribute to relevant discussion, participate in Twitter initiatives (like, for example #FollowFriday one), etc. The one thing I have found Twitter hashtags to be particularly useful is tracking conferences and participating in Twitter chats. [...]
December 18, 2009
We’ve all seen the #followfriday or #musicmonday memes on Twitter, as well as others every day in the Trending Topics section, but what’s with the little “˜pound’ symbol (#) that they all seem to have? Those are called hashtags, and they are often misunderstood by new members of the Twitter community. So, what are they [...]
