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For the Lawyer: What is a twitter hashtag?

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What is a hashtag?

For the Lawyer: What is a twitter hashtag? Twitter is only one aspect of Social Media that Legal Professionals need to master. My Project Social Media presents my thoughts regarding the impact of social media marketing on the practice of law. See my page to for more information.

What is a twitter hashtag?

A hashtag is a term or word or run-on phrase, prefixed by the # or hashtag symbol. It is more properly and historically known as the pound sign. It helps people categorize messages in twitter. It is a critical way to search for a topic and its topic stream. It is about the only useful way to search on twitter for information or users that might be of interest to you.

Anyone can create a hashtag. You create it by just starting to use it. If you have one you think you want to use, you might search for it on twitter to see who also might be using it. You might change your mind if you find out that some disreputable organization has used your idea for a while. This is not a bar to your use of it. There are not licensing requirement. You can appropriate another hash tag if you want by just using it. This is one way to make connections with others that might have similar interests.

The hashtag concept was not created by twitter but by twitter users. The concept is now also being used by other social media such as Facebook.

**Why the picture of flowing water?  Twitter is a constant flow of information and communications. 

 

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