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.

This is an adult forum, you need to ask a grandchild this question.

You youngsters

I’m tellin ya it’s an octothorpe

I bet somebody in PARF knows :)

That's great...except that it's been called hash or some variant of that overseas for decades. So, seems that it WASN'T reinvented by "stupid marketing people".

"Hash" has also been used in the software/computing world for as long as it's been around, which is why "hashtag" is a natural extension.

More like this is a forum for people who are extremely old. :(

OCTOTHORPE!!

Dang computerized generation:mad:

Ironically at 61 I used my first hashtag this morning at an attempt of a comedic post to FB:

"Temps in SoCal have dropped into the 40's, the next ice age has arrived! We are all dooooomed! The end is near! Send us your goose down, I'm not sure what to do with it but I hear it is good for this type of thing! #thestruggleisreal #sendhottoddies

I know the question is about hashtags but oh, BTW, "Cantdrive55" - the speed limits were increased several decades ago. You are really out of touch... ;)

Maybe he is a huge Sammy Hagar fan? :cool:

C'mon Scott, don't ruin the punchline!

Here you go.

Let's say you're looking at photos on Instagram.
You come across this
https://www.instagram.com/p/BfbK-uClZ-Q/?hl=en


You notice the #Porsche911 tag.
That is a keyword associated with this photo.
What is this "Porsche 911" he speaks of? I want to see more of this topic!
If you want more photos also tagged with that keyword, click it.
So, if you click it, you now see every photo with the #porsche911 tag
https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/porsche911/?hl=en

#BringBackOctoThorpe!!!

#Thread is done!

I'm only 33, but the original post and subsequent answers are quite telling.

Gosh durn whippersnappers and their hasytabs, GPSers, and instabook! Why, when I was a kid you could buy a steak dinner for a nickle!

and their were buffalo everywhere

Sometimes being "out of it" is a good thing.
A real good thing.

You guys are hilarious!

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You couldn’t be more wrong.

Pound, number, and hash have all been around a long time. Do you call a #2 pencil a “pound 2 pencil”? In America, if the “#” symbol is before a number, we refer to it as a number symbol. If it’s placed after a number, it’s referred to as a pound sign, 5# or 5 pounds(lbs). The word “hash” isn’t used much here in the US, mostly in The United Kingdom and Ireland, but it is called that. The word hash was adopted as the metadata tag, aka hashtag.

uh.. no... #threadisdone is the correct way to hashtag that!