I’ve been wondering for weeks what the hell was up with people throwing little number (#) signs in their tweets on twitter. I just discovered that this symbol is called a hashtag and was developed as a way of tagging the content of a tweet, so that twitter folk who don’t follow you, but are interested in that topic, can find and read your tweet.

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Recently I joined Plurk, a social media network which is quite similar to Twitter, a site I have been using for about a month. While Plurk has many cool features and many fewer technical issues (right now), I don’t think I will be trading in Twitter just yet.