What does hashtag mean?

 

An introduction

Human communication with others, whether they are family members, relatives or friends, is very important in their lives, so it reassures them and informs them of their latest news, and the means of communication with people are multiple and constantly evolving. .  Then it evolved to paper mail, and then came the telephone, which allowed a person to hear the voice of the person they wanted to communicate with. Today the Internet has appeared, the Internet that has taken over the whole world and turned it into a small town, so that communication with others is unlimited. Either barriers or restrictions, and he was able to penetrate geographical boundaries and get rid of the problem of distance that often presents itself as an obstacle to communicating with others. 

 Social networks

 In our days we have witnessed the emergence of so-called social networking sites that functioned to bridge distances and allow us to communicate with others regardless of the distance that separated them from us, and these sites are sites created on the Internet to allow us to communicate.  with others with ease and ease, through written conversations or voice chat, or putting photos, and some of these sites also allowed us to speak with others directly by voice and video, and the most famous examples of social networking sites are Facebook, Twitter and Skype. 

hashtags

We recently noticed the spread of the so-called hashtag on many social networking sites, especially Twitter and Facebook, and many people are wondering about the hashtag, not knowing what it is. 

A hashtag is a hashtag that is used to categorize tweets or news with a topic, so that it can be read by followers of those tweets or news or by non-followers of them, and always begins with a #. 

The importance of hashtags

The hashtag is of great importance on social networking sites, and its benefits include:

•  They are of great importance in the organization and ordering of information.

•  Filters and categorizes the data in directions that express its nature and specialization.

• Its importance also lies in helping us access a wealth of information about hot events or developments.

•  On Twitter, when you do a search, the hashtag is prioritized.

• A hashtag increases the number of followers of a Tweet or news.

Hashtag Features

The hashtag has several characteristics that must be taken into account when creating any hashtag, and these characteristics are:

• The hashtag must not have been previously created.

•  The name of the hashtag should be as short as possible so that it does not take many characters from the participants' tweets.

• That the title chosen for the hashtag expresses its theme as much as possible, so that anyone can know its theme just by looking at the title.