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 way hashtags are being used on TikTok is changing. While it’s usually not best practice to litter your uploads with dozens of hashtags, it can be helpful when it comes to accessing subcultures and ...

Getting a hashtag to trend can be difficult to do. Most attempts to get a hashtag trending fail miserably. There are so many variables that go into what creates virality. Most importantly, it comes ...

The hashtag “Very Asian” has taken off on Twitter after a viewer left a racist voice message for an Asian American news anchor who said that she ate dumplings in celebration of New Year’s Day. Social ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- Thursday morning, Twitter became a publicly traded company. Stocks soared and put the value of the social-media company at more than $30 billion. So with Twitter in the news, we ...

The Twitter hashtag #killallmen, which started trending last May, has finally reached conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. His site, InfoWars, ran a story Monday about how "feminists have misappropriated ...

What started as a hashtag response to an all-white, all-male panel of children's book authors at a 2014 BookCon reader event has resulted in a newly-published book aiming to promote diversity in ...

What is the origin of this # mysterious symbol? It’s gone by many names, (the pound sign, the number sign, the octothorpe and the hashtag symbol) and it’s had many meanings, but what is the origin of ...

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Bev Gooden, creator of the hashtag #whyIstayed. The hashtag took off in September after the Ray Rice scandal, when many asked why women stay in abusive relationships.