Twitter and the way of the hashtag
- Written by Jean Burgess, Professor and Director, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
Jon Tyson/Unsplash, CC BYPerhaps no single character has been as iconic a symbol of Twitter as the now-ubiquitous hashtag.
The syntax of the hashtag has a few simple rules: it consists of the hash symbol (#) immediately followed by a string of alphanumeric characters, with no spaces or punctuation.
It is used routinely in social media...





