Communicating in the language of hashtags is an annoyingly universal aspect of social media. But if you’re using hashtags on your Instagram posts, tweets, or Facebook status updates, you should make ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. If you’re new to Twitter, or even if you’ve been using it for years, you may wonder what all those words preceded by the # sign are. They ...

Hashtags are possibly the most misunderstood tool on the social web. Some people confuse social mentions with hashtags; others use completely obscure hashtags because they see their friends using the ...

Recently, a client asked, “I am at a tradeshow; everyone is talking about hashtags on Twitter, how can I use them too?” Hashtags, the ‘#’, ‘pound symbol’ or ‘number sign’ key on your keypad, are used ...

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