Hashtag

Hashtags are a #word or #PhaseWithoutSpaces prefixed with a hash symnbol (also known as a number or pound sign), used to tag messages, images and videos, making them searchable. Someone who wants to locate tweets related to Encyclopedia Dramatica could search for the #EncyclopediaDramatica hashtag. Their use was popularized on Twitter, a microblogging service, and spread to Facebook and other social networks.

Trending

Trending is when a large number of people use the same hashtag in their messages, making it popular and for emerging trends to be identified. Justine Sacco is a public relations executive who made a racist tweet just before she boarded a plane for a 12 hour flight to Africa. News of her tweet spread like wildfire, within hours the #HasJustineLandedYet hashtag was trending worldwide and by the time the plane landed, Justine was unemployed.

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Blunders

Some of the most infamous hashtags came from Twitter accounts managed by people who's minds are not in the gutter. However, the Internet is swarming with people who do, they are quick to spot alternative meanings to acronyms and unintended phrases because someone failed to capitalize letter. Given the nature of microblogs and social media, word of these blunders travels at a ruthlessly fast pace.

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Serious business

When it comes to social media, businesses often behave like lemmings, following the latest trend without really knowing why. As Facebook's popularity soared, companies spent money on various gimmicks to get people to follow and like their pages on the social network. Now history repeats itself with Twitter, attempts are made to get people use their hashtags, but unlike Facebook, hashtags can easily be hijacked by angry consumers.

Hashtag baby

Hashtag Jamerson is the name of a baby girl who's parents spend too much time on the internet. Either that or they hate their child so much that an abortion wasn't good enough. Until their child is old enough to go for a new high score, expect that her parents will continue profiting from the publicity as they continue neglecting their child, leaving her alone in a crib while they play Farmville.

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• http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4671412/We-called-our-baby-hashtag.html
• http://www.inquisitr.com/430399/2012s-most-outrageous-baby-names-and-yes-hashtag-made-the-cut/
• http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2012/nov/28/baby-hashtag-silliest-name-ever

Anonymous pranks

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Hashtags

Hashtags are a new internet phenomenon, popularized by users of twitter and facebook. --Cunt 09:47, 21 December 2013 (EST)

• #word or #phrasewithnospaces
• social networking and micro blogging
• popularized on twitter
• trends, trending on Twitter
• micro memes
• consumer complaints
• current drama (12 hour flight)
• advertisements
• Anonymous pranks (i.e. [[[cut4bieber]])
• event promotion
• https://twitter.com/search?q=%23HasJustineLandedYet&src=hash
• http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-not-to-twitter-7-hashtag-fails-to-learn-from/
• http://www.smosh.com/smosh-pit/articles/5-unbelievable-hashtag-fails (pics)

Social Media

• http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2305444/The-Role-of-Hashtags-in-Social-Media-and-Search
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashtag
• http://mashable.com/2013/10/08/what-is-hashtag/
• A hash symbol is also used as the tripcode character.

From this we can use simple logic to infer that hashtags are for jerks.

Jimmy Fallon

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Marketing

• http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/facebook-hashtag-marketing/

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See also

• Justine Sacco

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