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HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Twitter #Hashtags

HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Twitter #Hashtags
One of the most complex features of Twitter for new users to understand is the hashtag, a topic with a hash symbol ("#") at the start to identify it. Twitter hashtags like #followfriday help spread information on Twitter while also helping to organize it. The hashtag is a favorite tool of conferences and event organizers, but it's also a way for Twitter users to organize themselves: if everyone agrees to append a certain hashtag to tweets about a topic, it becomes easier to find that topic in search, and more likely the topic will appear in Twitter's Trending Topics. So how do you disseminate and make sense of all this hashtag madness? By going through the art of the hashtag step-by-step, of course. This short guide details how to identify, track, use, and organize hashtags in an efficient and useful way. Have a tip to share on hashtags or a unique way you utilize them? 1. So what's the most efficient way to figure out those nasty hashtags? What the Trend? 2. 3. 4.

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