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You may have a hard time envisioning conversations on social media these days that don't have a #hashtag. Well, today Twitter is celebrating 10 years of arguably one of its most popular, controversial ...

Twitter (now X) and hashtags are inseparable. But for most marketers, hashtag strategy remains stuck in a 2015 mindset: stuff your tweet with trending tags and hope for the best. That approach doesn’t ...

The origin of the hashtag can be traced to identifying key words in computer code. From there it evolved to tagging topics or groups in early chat rooms. This bottom up approach to categorizing ...

Terry writes about social networking giants and legal issues in Silicon Valley for CNET News. He joined CNET News from the Associated Press, where he spent the six years covering major breaking news ...