Okay, I will finally reveal my ignorance and ask the question. What the he11 is a “Hashtag” and what does it do? Will someone please tell me?
I’m serious. I know it has something to do with twitter, but since I do not use twitter and have never been near a tweet or a twit or whatever they are called, I honestly do not know what “Hashtag” means. Is it some method of organizing or categorizing tweets/twits?
On Twitter, if a phrase is preceded by a # it becomes an easy way of searching for other ‘tweets’ that contain the same phrase.
So, as an example, people will put #Olympics into a tweet to it can be easily found by other people who are tweeting about the Olympics.
Similar to a topic or keyword here at Freerepublic.
# is called the hash symbol (among other names) so these are referred to as hashtags.
There was a great line in Olympus Has Fallen where he hero’s punching in a password and the person reading it off says hashtag for the # sign. He yells “What the hell is a hashtag?” Someone else jumps in and says “SHIFT THREE!!”