Cool Twitter Tip

Use hashtags in your Twitter tweets

What are hashtags? Hashtags are the # (pound sign) placed in front of key words in your Twitter post. For example #golf, #Ford or #marketing. Hashtags can be used for multiple words such as #golf #course or #GolfCourse.

Why use hashtags? Hashtags are used in the Twitter search function. If people want to find conversations about a particular subject in Twitter, they can use the key word to search. Twitter search results will return conversations with the conversations that have hashtags attached to the key words. If you do not use hashtags then your tweets are not included in the search results and you miss out on additional people seeing your tweets. Check out hashtag.org which is a great resource for seeing what hashtags are currently popular.