Nowadays, there are many on social media that are “ending it with a hashtag.” You are probably not new to the word hashtag and have used it a few (or many) times in your posts #justlikethis. But do ...

Remember when everyone got braces in 5th or 6th grade? You thought they were the coolest things in the world and you wanted yours, pronto. And then a horrible thing happened: Your dentist didn’t ...

A hashtag is two things: a label and a filter. Using a hashtag in your tweets is like flagging them as relevant to a specific topic — the topic being the hashtag. By searching for a specific label, ...

Do hashtags matter? This is a question asked recently by Patrick Coffee of PR Newser at AdWeek. Should social media managers be skipping the hashtag? Rather than guess, let’s take a data-driven ...

You see it constantly. A business or individual shares a Tweet or an Instagram post that connects to some content, adding a bunch of hashtags afterward. If you’re anything like me, you might have ...

Unlike supermarket produce, when Twitter hashtags expire, they aren't done for good. But these hashtags do have a life span that varies from tag to tag, and their lifetime depends in part on which of ...

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While viewers watched the twisty and turny premiere of How to Get Away With Murder last Thursday, iPhones in hand, they had many important thoughts to share with the Twitterverse about the newest ...

Instagram has blocked a large number of hashtags — the keywords people use with "#" as a prefix to make their images more searchable — and unsurprisingly most of them are obscenities. The Data Pack ...