Like many of you, I’m fairly new to Twitter. Only a year in, or so. And I’m still learning new things. Like how to use hashtags more accurately. Hashtags are used to drive additional metadata to your tweets. It’s a means to create groupings of a similar theme. Ahem, I mean tweme. I thought I’d put together a guide for some of the most frequently used hashtags.
#ff = aka #followfriday; in a tweet along with 1 or more @names means you recommend those people as worth following.
#TTYLXOX = TTYL - Talk To You Later XOX - Hugs And Kisses
#yolo = you only live once (but I’ve also heard “you obviously lack originality”)
#oomf = one of my followers
#subtweet = It's the shortening of "subliminal tweet" which is directly referring to a particular person without mentioning their name or directly mentioning them and it basically indicates that the tweet in which the hashtag is used is a subliminal tweet. Someone being a punk, basically.
*The following list was obtained from a third party site, Hashtags.org, which offers an overview of popular hashtags used on Twitter.
Business: #jobs, #business, #networking, #retail, #shoppers, #consumer, #sales, #economy, #technology, #luxury, #news, #internet, #mktg, #marketing, #webmarketing
Celebrities: #50cent, #aplusk, #bieber, #britneyspears, #charliesheen, #ladygaga, #obama, #oprah, #osama, #perezhilton, #ryanseacrest, #the_real_shaq, #theellenshow
Education: #edapp, #edtech, #education, #elearning, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #teachers
Environment / Justice: #humanrights, #poverty, #hunger, #aid, #sustainability, #health, #green, #eco, #earthtweet, #humantrafficking, #climate, #solar, #fairtrade
Social Change: #socialgood, #cause, #volunteer, #4change, #giveback, #dogood, #crisiscommons
TV Entertainment: #bones, #dwts, #glee, #gossipgirl, #graysanatomy, #idol, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #sharktank, #survivor, #teachers, #theoffice, #thevoice, #xfactor
