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Saturday, August 10, 2013

What about hashtags?

I must admit that I have been allergic to social media lately. I have used it for a long time to promote my music, videos and shows. Using social media was useful, and it got me places, but the polluted aspect of timelines drives me crazy. It's everything at the same time, here and now. No, thank you. Thank God for hashtags, for they serve as universal concentrators of topics in the web jungle. When I mean universal, I mean that they are accepted and processed by pretty much every relevant social media website.

No matter where you post your thing, you just have to add a hashtag to the post, and it automatically joins the group of posts that are similar to yours. Hashtags not only have the function of aggregating similar content, but have also been used to measure the popularity of topics. That explains the meaning of the buzzwords "trending topics". The more a hashtag is posted, the more people get to know about it.

Hashtags.org is a website dedicated to show a panorama of hash tags worldwide. The front page brings the most popular hash tags currently, and the portal also has an extensive archive of information about how to use this tool. To conclude, I would like to leave you with what is, in my opinion, one of the smartest ways to use hashtags ever. Jimmy Fallon is using the word hashtag to name a sketch in the Late Night Show. Every now and then, he posts an unusual hashtag on his Twitter account and lets people create the content for the hashtag. They all become trending topics instantly and that is helping Jimmy Fallon to solidify his place as one of the most interesting talk show hosts nowadays. If you do a search for "hashtags" on YouTube, for example, the first 15 links that appear are to Jimmy Fallon's show. So here's my hashtag for you, Jimmy: #goodjob

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  1. UnknownAugust 23, 2013 at 12:24 PM

    I do agree with the importance of hash tags, because it centralizes several different comments into one realm. You think about some of the hot topics that happen on a daily basis and depending on you social media followers, you may not get to review some the responses to that particular topic. However, ever since hashtags have become the social media norm it has become so much easier to connect with other users that share your same interest. Hashtags seem to be on par with filtering, in regards to search engines, because it skips the middle man and dives straight into the topic of your choice!

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  2. UnknownAugust 24, 2013 at 9:35 PM

    I actually don't use hashtag to look at other tweets. However, Instagram is trending in hashtags and it brings more attention. When you click on the hashtag, of course other pictures that relates to that picture comes up from all over the United States. You should definitely be more involved in social media. I believe you can bring more traffic to your blog that way. Fyi, I love the layout of your blog. Very well put together.

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