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Why do some users put "#" in front of things? What does it mean?
Fairly new to Twitter (joined 2 days ago).
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Recursion
28-04-2009, 06:01 PM
It's a # tag, so you put a # when your talking about a subject like "#thesimpsons" or something
omgDAN!
28-04-2009, 06:36 PM
http://www.hashtags.org/#
Click about :)
The Professor
29-04-2009, 06:09 PM
Whenever I watch something american they always call it a "pound" sign which confuses me :'(
edgates
29-04-2009, 06:44 PM
They're quite handy when you want to use http://search.twitter.com . So if you wanted to find out what people are saying about swine flu, you could type in #swineflu, providing they'd put that in their tweet :)
ReviewDude
29-04-2009, 10:00 PM
Whenever I watch something american they always call it a "pound" sign which confuses me :'(
I believe the technical name for the '#' (hash/pound) sign is an 'octothorpe' :)
Jordulti
29-04-2009, 10:53 PM
Octothorpe sign.
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