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Originally Posted by Z-man
Speaking of Hashtag obsessions....
I don't read or do anything on Twitter simply because I am not interested in the minute by minute activities of people who lead miserable, pathetic lives: I have my own miserable pathetic life to worry about -- thank you very much. 
So -- inform me -- what purpose do hashtags server on Twitter?
-Z.
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I don't do Twitter at all either. I had to sign up a few years ago because someone said a client had said something nice about me. So I needed to see it. Haven't touched it since and I still get emails saying I have new followers, even though I don't think I have ever posted anything there and know I haven't logged in since around 2008.
Anyway, some of those hashtags are put there so people can track them via Facebook or retweets. I actually have a lot of clients who do this, as they have to do monthly reports on where they were mentioned in the social media world. It's a lot easier to filter out irrelevant results when you have a unique hashtag.