Brands still struggle with the hashtag – some more than most. What starts as a good-natured appeal to the public often ends in a feeding frenzy of snark and outrage. To avoid a #HashtagFail, Twitter’s ...

The word hashtag has officially been added to the Oxford English Dictionary, the OED announced in a blog post Friday. But that’s not the most exciting thing in its announcement. The word hashtag ...

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 ...

The primary benefit of using keywords over hashtags is intent. Hashtags are often too broad (#Marketing) or too niche ...

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 ...

Listen up, men. It's time to push that toxic masculinity aside. We need to chat about mental health and suicide. If you're apprehensive about speaking up, don't worry. There's a hashtag for that. SEE ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Downtown Denver is getting a HashTAG. (No, we’re not talking about Twitter or Instagram.) Restaurateur Troy Guard is planning to open his second HashTAG ...

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 ...

From #Girlboss to #Scandal, publishers are discovering a new marketing hook for hard-copy as well as online reading Can a book “go viral” in the same way a cat video on YouTube can? Unless it’s Harry ...

Today, the hashtag is ubiquitous on platforms like Twitter and Instagram as well as Facebook, Snapchat and TikTok. Log on to Twitter anytime and you'll find a list of trending hashtags with tens of ...

This past week, countless users have taken to social media to discuss the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown at the hands of a police officer and the ensuing protests and violence in Ferguson ...

Actress Alyssa Milano speaks at the 2017 World Of Children Hero Awards at Montage Beverly Hills (Randy Shropshire/Getty Images for World of Children) The latest headlines from our reporters across the ...