What’s a HashTag?

Good question.  Let’s assume you already know how Twitter works.

• Here’s a good wiki description about HashTags.

Let’s say you want to find quick Twitter info on a particular topic or place.  One of my topics that I write about is the HopeBC area.  I like to send out tweets every now and again about the HopeBC area.  Why?  Well, I live in the area and like to draw attention to it.  To help feature the area I built http://hopebc.ca quite a while ago and am rebuilding it now again. 

So, when I tweet about HopeBC, I put it into the searchable category ‘hopebc’ by placing a hashtag ‘#’ in front of the ‘hopebc’.  To see how this works, go to HashTags.org or TwitterSearch.  There are more Twitter based search tools -

these two just happen to be the ones I tend towards.  Yes, Google has one as well.  Also yes, this is one more way to encourage GoogleJuice.  

Type in #hopebc at one of these sites and see that I recently posted a few tweets.  Type in some other terms that interest you and see what comes up!

Any questions?