Twitter and #hashtags
26 July 2008 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | 1 comment
Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag.
Hashtags were developed as a means to create "groupings" on Twitter, without having to change the basic service. The hash symbol is a convention borrowed primarily from IRC channels and later from Jaiku's channels.
hashtags.org provides real-time tracking of Twitter hashtags. Opt-in by following @hashtags to have your hashtags tracked.
From http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Hashtags. Thanks for turning me on to hashtags, Maz!
