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In recent years, social media have become a common way for political groups and social movements to organize. On Twitter’s 10-year anniversary, the site published a list of the most used hashtags ...

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 ...

The American Dialect Society deemed "hashtag" the word of the year. NPR digital culture correspondent Laura Sydell and NPR senior strategist Andy Carvin explain how the social media tool works and why ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. One intriguing aspect of Twitter’s evolution over the last seven years ...

Time moves quickly on the internet, so we are already overdue for a moratorium—and a subsequent nostalgic reflection—on something that happened 10 months ago. You might remember the summer of 2013 as ...

The way hashtags are being used on TikTok is changing. While it's usually not best practice to litter your uploads with dozens of hashtags, it can be helpful when it comes to accessing subcultures and ...

YouTube is launching a new type of search results page that appears when users look for videos by hashtag. YouTube first introduced the ability to search by hashtag in 2018, but it never worked ...