Do hashtags matter? This is a question asked recently by Patrick Coffee of PR Newser at AdWeek. Should social media managers be skipping the hashtag? Rather than guess, let’s take a data-driven ...

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 ...

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're hashtags. And you should consider using them if you want to ...

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 ...

LinkedIn is constantly improving to better serve users. Though the platform has been around since 2003, they introduced clickable hashtags in 2016. Other platforms have been using them much longer, ...

A hashtag is a form of metadata containing a keyword or phrase prefixed with the ‘#’ symbol. By placing a hashtag followed by a word or phrase on social media, such as Instagram or Meta, it turns into ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Houston-based journalist covering all things related to Instagram and social media. The Instagram marketing debate of hashtag ...

If you’re lucky enough to get your hashtag trending, it can quickly snowball until even those who have never heard of whatever the hashtag pertains to are sucked into the conversation. While hashtags ...

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 ...