Brands still struggle with the hashtag – some more than most. What starts as a good-natured appeal to the public often ends in a feeding frenzy of snark and outrage. To avoid a #HashtagFail, Twitter’s ...

The word hashtag has officially been added to the Oxford English Dictionary, the OED announced in a blog post Friday. But that’s not the most exciting thing in its announcement. The word hashtag ...

From #Girlboss to #Scandal, publishers are discovering a new marketing hook for hard-copy as well as online reading Can a book “go viral” in the same way a cat video on YouTube can? Unless it’s Harry ...

Getting a hashtag to trend can be difficult to do. Most attempts to get a hashtag trending fail miserably. There are so many variables that go into what creates virality. Most importantly, it comes ...

What is the origin of this # mysterious symbol? It’s gone by many names, (the pound sign, the number sign, the octothorpe and the hashtag symbol) and it’s had many meanings, but what is the origin of ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- Thursday morning, Twitter became a publicly traded company. Stocks soared and put the value of the social-media company at more than $30 billion. So with Twitter in the news, we ...

If you’re new to the world of social media, you may not know exactly what a hashtag is or what you can do with one. Who can create hashtags? What are they used for? And how have these seemingly random ...

Instagram has always been a social network where you follow friends and creators, but today it’s evolving with a new way to follow hashtags so you see top posts and Stories about a topic on your home ...

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Bev Gooden, creator of the hashtag #whyIstayed. The hashtag took off in September after the Ray Rice scandal, when many asked why women stay in abusive relationships.

Instagram is removing the ‘Recent’ tab on hashtag pages for some users as part of a small test, the company announced on Tuesday. Currently, when you select a hashtag, you’re taken to a page where you ...