What is #hashtag meaning 





What is a # hashtag what does the hashtag do what is hashtag mean that's what are we talking about today tutorials and how-to son how you can use digital media to achieve your goals what is this you might know this symbols the pound sign number sign or a hash sign and in the social media world if you combined this symbol with a specific word or phrase you create a hash taghash tag allows users to categorize their social media content or posts around a specific theme so 


whether that post is a photo video blog tweet or status message using a hash tag will connect that piece of content with a specific word or phrase hash tags enable the power of searching through all the social media content that's uploaded every single day think of a hash tag asa file folder if you use a hash tag with your post you put that post into the file folder hash tags allow you to participate in conversations happening in real time. 


I log on a Twitter and I search the hashtag earthquake and what I'll find is other users who've also felt the earthquake I'll get details about the earthquake like how strong it was where the epicentre was it's kind of like turning on the TV when there's breaking news but the powerful aspect of social media is being able to communicate with any one anywhere at anytime so if there's a popular TV show on or an award show or even a sports game people can tune in and contribute to the conversation all in real time hashtags allow you to categorically search for things especially on Instagram so



Again for example I'm going to Iceland in the fall so.if I want to see pictures of Iceland I can search that hashtag and I'll see what people have been posting it's also great for getting ideas so I can search hashtag outfit or hashtag DIY fordo-it-yourself projects or even hashtag lunch to see what people are eating for lunch hashtags also allow you to contribute to themes or causes hashtag throw back Thursday or TBT is a popular hashtag where people will post pictures of when they were young it's also really popular to use hashtags around a certain cause so.


For Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October you'll see a lot of hashtag breast cancer awareness brands will often use hashtags to connect with their audiences or businesses can use it to connect with their customers so if your restaurant for example you can search your restaurant name as a hashtag and you'l l see all the pictures that people have taken of your food and being at your restaurant and stuff like that anyone could use the hashtag and you can pretty much use it on every platform. 


All you have to do is put the hash sign in front of a specific word or phrase and put it directly into your post also a space breaks the hashtag that's why when you see  hashtags with several words in it there's no spaces so for example class of 2016 there's no spaces that right here is a hashtag but down here if you put the spaces where they would normally be there's really only hashtag that's being read and these are just words another thing to note is that you can use multiple hashtags.


For social media posts also anyone can make a hashtagit's great for events so for example if you have a wedding coming up you can put your initials and maybe the date or a theme or whatever and encourage your guests to use that hashtag so that you can see all the different pictures have been taken at your event so now that you know what hashtag is homework time I want to show you guys something that you can make a hashtag about let's see umalright this thing this is a painting that my roommate made in the comments below post some hashtags that you would associate with this painting and we'll see what you guys come up with thanks