Nowadays, there are many on social media that are “ending it with a hashtag.” You are probably not new to the word hashtag and have used it a few (or many) times in your posts #justlikethis. But do ...

Update: We’ve received a response from Facebook regarding EdgeRank Checker’s study: When we introduce a new product at Facebook, we focus on getting the user experience right; hashtags are no ...

A hashtag is two things: a label and a filter. Using a hashtag in your tweets is like flagging them as relevant to a specific topic — the topic being the hashtag. By searching for a specific label, ...

Remember when everyone got braces in 5th or 6th grade? You thought they were the coolest things in the world and you wanted yours, pronto. And then a horrible thing happened: Your dentist didn’t ...

Do you use Hashtags on social media? If not, it is time to incorporate in your strategy! Hashtags have become omnipresent in social media and consumers are only using them more (I must mention some of ...

Unlike supermarket produce, when Twitter hashtags expire, they aren't done for good. But these hashtags do have a life span that varies from tag to tag, and their lifetime depends in part on which of ...

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James has a passion for how technologies influence business and has several Mobile World Congress events under his belt. James has interviewed a variety of leading figures in his career, from former ...

It’s difficult to express how annoying the misuse of hashtags on Twitter is. While there are definitely some upsides to using the popular conversation-tracking feature, there are many of us on Twitter ...

Instagram is my happy place. I open my feed to escape from the real world, to forget about current events, to fill my heart and soul with beautiful things that I want to look at for hours on end. It's ...