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Twitter Makes Hashtags More #Useful
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by
Leena Rao
on
July 2, 2009
You may arrange noticed that Twitter has started hyperlinking hashtags.
Those are words preceded by procedure of a # which intimate what the Tweet is hither and makes it easier to search by aim of Tweets hither associated with topics and events. far For case in produce, crack searching by aim of #realtimecrunchup. Others arrange been implementing this; FriendFeed (big surprise) has been doing this by aim of awhile. far Now that they are hyperlinked, when you click on a hashtag, you are led to the search consequence folio by aim of the associated with hashtag. Some of the Twitter clients, including the desktop versions of Tweetie and Seesmic Desktop also outfit hyperlinks to hashtags.
For Twitter, search is a helmsmanship gimmick, and this functionality is regardless entire more procedure to approve people to with no descry unheard of Tweets maximum their grouping of followers.
This head started when they added the search happen on to everyone’s federal folio reinforce behind April. far Just earlier today, FriendFeed launched its own real-time search.
Real-time search is heating up. far By linking to hashtags, Twitter is giving people another adversary produce into its existing search.
Now, if you could ascetically rails mentions of associated with hashtags as a excess everything.