Ten years ago, the first hashtag came to be, courtesy of Twitter. Did anyone ever expect it would become such a ubiquitous part of our daily conversations or that we would be making the hashtag symbol ...

A hashtag or tag is a clickable keyword used to group terms together. The hashtag was first used in a user’s post in August ...

Brands still struggle with the hashtag – some more than most. What starts as a good-natured appeal to the public often ends in a feeding frenzy of snark and outrage. To avoid a #HashtagFail, Twitter’s ...

Getting a hashtag to trend can be difficult to do. Most attempts to get a hashtag trending fail miserably. There are so many variables that go into what creates virality. Most importantly, it comes ...

The hashtag was born on IRC networks before migrating to Twitter and evolving into something that people verbalised ("hashtag fail"). Now some factions are trying to turn it into a gestural expression ...

The way hashtags are being used on TikTok is changing. While it's usually not best practice to litter your uploads with dozens of hashtags, it can be helpful when it comes to accessing subcultures and ...

The use of the hashtag as a Twitter tool to denote a specific topic in order for the masses to follow along—which was first suggested (in a Tweet, naturally) by Silicon Valley regular and early ...

Instagram has always been a social network where you follow friends and creators, but today it’s evolving with a new way to follow hashtags so you see top posts and Stories about a topic on your home ...

Does anyone understand the purpose of hashtags? Because the amount of sporadic hashtag campaigns brands put out there on a daily basis is astounding. Actually, it’s just plain disappointing. The ...

Instagram recently made a change to its algorithm, allowing users to follow specific hashtags. Stories and posts that use the hashtag will be featured in a user’s newsfeed alongside the content they ...

We’re officially in the era of too many hashtags. Nearly three-quarters of social media users stick them in posts, according to a March 2013 study from RadiumOne. But quickly scan Twitter, Instagram, ...

Do you love hashtags but worry about getting hand cramps when you hold shift and press three simultaneously so often every day? Then you’ll love the HashKey, a new Kickstarter project to add a ...