What is a hashtag & how can I make one?
March 13th, 2009 by Jerell | Filed under Hash Tag.
So your new to Twitter and you don’t know what a hashtag is. Let me explain. It’s simply a ‘#’ sign used in front of any alpha-numeric combination used as an identifier of a conversation, topic, trend, anything. Think of it this way, you are watching American Idol and you simply want to see what everyone else is saying on Twitter. So you can go over to search.twitter.com and look up #AmericanIdol, and you can see what everyone else is saying about American Idol. Pretty cool. #AmericanIdol is the hashtag.
If you want to create a your own hashtag, it’s really easy and there are no rules on what a hashtag should be, but I do have some suggestions.
1. First do a quick search and see if the hashtag is currently in use. If it is try and come up with another one.
2. Keep it short.
3. Keep it relevant to your subject.
4. Make it easy to remember.
5. Let others know about it.
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You’ve done a great job outlining the key details for starting a hashtag. Short, relevant and easy to remember are dead on.
Too many times you’ll find people asking, “What’s the hashtag for conference X?” If people have to ask what the hashtag is, the organizer hasn’t done a good enough job promoting it.