Due to exceedingly increased demand, I've decided to give an encore on "Lessons on Hash Tag Usage". So listen up folks, or read up here (aargh whatever!) Anyway read if you care to:
Hash tags (#), those little bastards, who are they?
Well #HashTags are a tool that creates an automatic hyperlink to a topic, a means to easily share a post to a given topic, personality or entity etc. e.g. #Golola is not a joking subject. By posting the above, automatically the word "Golola" becomes a hyperlink i.e. becoming of blue font or becoming underlined with blue or highlighted blue, a hyperlink which if clicked on, takes you to a page having all posts of people who have "hashtagged" #Golola in any of their posts. That means if you want to read any posts about the topic: Golola, you can just type and search for his hashtag: #Golola and see all posts about him.
There are various things people hashtag about say #GGMU (Glory Glory Man United) or #HalaMadrid (For Madridstas) or like #Finance or #NTVTonite or just plain anything like #Boredom #University #Kampala etc.
Important to know is also what is meant when they say that: "a certain hash tag is currently trending". This means that at that particular time, numerous people around the world or in a particular region in the world like say, Uganda are posting with that hash tag in their posts. e.g. after Man United loses yet another match in the EPL, the hash tag: #MoyesOut will start trending. Meaning, many people are posting with that hash tag.
Some rules of using hashtags:
1. For a word to become a hash tag, it the hash must be next to that word without any spaces e.g. "#MTN" not "# MTN"
2. For 2 or more words that you would like to make into a hash tag, there should be no space between the words, but maybe just capitalize each word to differentiate each of them e.g. "#MiamiBeach" not "#Miami Beach" and not "# Miami Beach"
3. You remember that we said hash tags are a sort of reference to a relevant topic? Yes, that means in hash tag usage, avoid using hash tags irrelevantly like: "#I love watching #the Mountain Dew adverts" or just outrightly using too many irrelevantly misplaced hash tags in a post like your life depends on it or something: #I'm so#special #today #God saw #my situation #and #bailed #me out. #Feelingblessed.
Leave that for Instagrammers. For them, they have somehow been excluded from this heehe
Enjoy your hash tags. Thank you for listening or reading or whatever.
#Peace
