Twitter marketing-What is a hash tag?

I hope your day is going great!  Today I want to speak to you about Twitter Hash Tags.   Hash Tags are what is happening when you see the tic tac toe board looking thing on twitter.  It looks like #.  Now you may say to yourself  "oh yeah I've seen that. But what is it?"  Well the Twitter support website says Definition: The # symbol, called a hashtag, is used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet.  It was created organically by Twitter users as a way to categorize messages.

Since Twitter is a great business tool Hash tags are great for business as well.  When you place a Hash tag you are saying this is the keyword that I'm speaking about.  When someone searches for that keyword it brings up all of the tweets categorized by that keyword. If enough people use that particular hash tag then it becomes a trend topic.

These tags are great because if someone pulls up the tweets with that keyword and they pull  up your tweet you might just find yourself with another follower who might read your information and share it with others which is great for viral marketing and content syndication.

Today (well June 25) marked the 2nd anniversary of Michael Jackson's death.   So you can imagine there was a lot of tweeting  going on concerning him.  People talking about his songs, dance moves, or how he affected thier lives.  A tweet might look like "We miss you Mike you will always be the #kingofpop!" So the hash tag is "king of pop" and if you were to do a search on twitter you will pull up those posts tagged #kingofpop

There are a few things to remember when creating tags. 1) Just like article marketing your keywords should be relevant to your tweet.  2)  If your profile is public  your tag will show up when someone searches that keyword.  Clicking on a hashtagged word in a message will show you tweets in that category.  3) The tag can be placed anywhere within the tweet.  4) Something that I did not mention. In any online marketing effort SPAM is bad. Therefore, you want to limit your tags per tweet to 3

So take the time to include Hash Tags in your twitter marketing campagne and watch your followers grow!



The third party site hashtags.org offers an overview of popular hash tags used on Twitter. Find out about trends, look at small, pretty graphs, and search to see if the hashtags of your fantasies exist.

http://hashtags.org/

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

Sorry the tags arent live but if youre interested in one of them just go to http://hashtags.org/