Hashtags are possibly the most misunderstood tool on the social web. Some people confuse social mentions with hashtags; others use completely obscure hashtags because they see their friends using the ...

Communicating in the language of hashtags is an annoyingly universal aspect of social media. But if you’re using hashtags on your Instagram posts, tweets, or Facebook status updates, you should make ...

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 ...

LinkedIn is constantly improving to better serve users. Though the platform has been around since 2003, they introduced clickable hashtags in 2016. Other platforms have been using them much longer, ...

If you’re lucky enough to get your hashtag trending, it can quickly snowball until even those who have never heard of whatever the hashtag pertains to are sucked into the conversation. While hashtags ...

A few weeks ago a minor sensation was caused when WYSIWYG website creation startup Squarespace started offering vouchers for iPhones in a draw for people who mentioned #squarespace in their tweets.

A hashtag is a form of metadata containing a keyword or phrase prefixed with the ‘#’ symbol. By placing a hashtag followed by a word or phrase on social media, such as Instagram or Meta, it turns into ...

Information regarding protecting your child on social media is ever changing, from the apps to avoid to the apps to monitor what your kids are doing. The Children Rescue Coalition released dozens of ...

YouTube shouldn’t be home to hashtags, but they were added anyway for no real reason. But in a bid to tidy up the feature popularized by Twitter, should you tap a video hashtag, you can now head to a ...