Ten years ago, the first hashtag came to be, courtesy of Twitter. Did anyone ever expect it would become such a ubiquitous part of our daily conversations or that we would be making the hashtag symbol ...

Instagram recently made a change to its algorithm, allowing users to follow specific hashtags. Stories and posts that use the hashtag will be featured in a user’s newsfeed alongside the content they ...

Getting a hashtag to trend can be difficult to do. Most attempts to get a hashtag trending fail miserably. There are so many variables that go into what creates virality. Most importantly, it comes ...

YouTube is embracing the hashtag. The company has been quietly working on a new feature that allows users to better discover content using hashtags — either by clicking on a hashtag on YouTube or by ...

Does anyone understand the purpose of hashtags? Because the amount of sporadic hashtag campaigns brands put out there on a daily basis is astounding. Actually, it’s just plain disappointing. The ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- Thursday morning, Twitter became a publicly traded company. Stocks soared and put the value of the social-media company at more than $30 billion. So with Twitter in the news, we ...