LinkedIn is constantly improving to better serve users. Though the platform has been around since 2003, they introduced clickable hashtags in 2016. Other platforms have been using them much longer, ...

Recently, a client asked, “I am at a tradeshow; everyone is talking about hashtags on Twitter, how can I use them too?” Hashtags, the ‘#’, ‘pound symbol’ or ‘number sign’ key on your keypad, are used ...

Communicating in the language of hashtags is an annoyingly universal aspect of social media. But if you’re using hashtags on your Instagram posts, tweets, or Facebook status updates, you should make ...

Instagram is testing out ways to make hashtags more valuable by adjusting how top posts are ranked on hashtag pages. Now, more recent and timely content will be surfaced in the section that curates ...

Update October 13, 2022: Twitter reached out to Digital Trends to clarify a few points about its current experiment with hashtags and had this to say: This is a temporary test visible to a small ...

Let’s put the blog back in microblogging. After all, it’s working for Tumblr. Let’s put the blog back in microblogging. After all, it’s working for Tumblr. is a senior tech and policy editor focused ...

How did the popular social network get some of its core features? July 15, 2012 — -- We know what you are thinking: Wait, didn't Twitter just celebrate its sixth birthday? How is it now ...

Elon Musk’s social media app X has been placing advertisements in the search results for at least 20 hashtags used to promote racist and antisemitic extremism, including #whitepower, according to a ...

In the week after former President Donald J. Trump tweeted about “the Chinese virus,” the number of coronavirus-related tweets with anti-Asian hashtags rose precipitously, a new study from UC San ...