I’m out of it. What does hashtag # mean?
 

I hear about hashtag all the time but what the heck does it mean? Is it for Twitter or Facebook? So not hip anymore.

Consider yourself lucky.

Don't go on Twitter. Or Tumblr. Just, no

Twitter. People subscribe to feeds. Tagging a post makes it show up in that feed.

I don't tweet. I barely do facebook, and only because my parents love it.

I still call # the pound sign....
28 PSI = 28 #
No, not so hip.

I call it the hash symbol. So when your drug dealer has an automated drug dealing system on his phone it says "Just press the hash key..."

I'm going with #&eggs.

Not just on Twitter.. Also huge on Instagram and Snapchat and well, just about everything that's out there. Example being, you can search for #porsche and every post that has Porsche content will fill your feed.

#youguysaresooutoftouch

What do you mean search for #porsche? Where do you type that in? Is that the URL?

I hear it too (from the newscasters at times) but have no idea what the hell does it do or its implication?

Someone please explain to me like you would to a second grader cause' I don't do none of them Facebook, Instagram stuff.

you put it into the search bar on basically any social media site or mobile app. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.

I always thought that # was the "pound" sign. Twitter, Instagram, and all those other instant contact providers are what's wrong with America....the receiver drops everything to respond instantly.

I can search for anything now, we don't need no stinkin' hashtags!

I don't know what it means and I still don't, don't want to know.

I did not read any replies.

I dont facebook, tweet, twit, twat or what ever.
I spend too much time here for any of that other crap.

My understanding as well!

The tic-tac-toe game? I'm hip....

It’s the octothorp # outside of social media

But inside, it’s a means of identifying a keyword for easier searching and filtering

(#pelican may be the keyword for our supplier, as opposed to all of the other uses and references to the word pelican which would yield very different search results)

A person thinks up a keyword an uses it consistently in their promotion, and hoped it catches on

Including while in an eye to eye conversation.

It's the attention-whore bat signal

It is the sign that marketing is indeed powerful.

It was the called the pound sign for many long years, then the new generation of marketing people that were too stupid to know the real name of the symbol just made up a new name and applied marketing.

I suspect soon someone will decide the tilde ( ~ ) will be renamed the wave or the waver or some other idiotic name and it will sweep the world.