Number sign. Pound sign. Octothorpe. A hash. Hashtag. #. What is it? What is its purpose? And most importantly: how can you use it to increase your press release’s visibility? The “hashtag” ...

The fast pace of Threads updates shows no sign of slowing down: Meta's Twitter killer is currently testing yet another new feature that power users have been asking for. This time it's hashtags, or ...

It is an ongoing question for scholars researching social media regarding the extent to which it can serve to facilitate social activism and ultimately lead to political change. For instance, Yang ...

We at the hashtags that spawned the decade's biggest social movements. Gene McVay, Marcus Hunter and Tarana Burke discuss their roles. Today we are spending some time looking back at the things that ...

A hashtag or tag is a clickable keyword used to group terms together. The hashtag was first used in a user’s post in August ...

Most brands, from enormous to tiny, use hashtags, but choices tend to be all over the place and the messages don’t always register which brand the hashtag relates to. What follows are 14 of the most ...

Instagram used to be all about hashtags. For years, creators and brands thought the more hashtags you threw on a post, the better your reach would be. More hashtags meant more chances to show up on ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. One intriguing aspect of Twitter’s evolution over the last seven years ...