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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