We grew up when the # symbol was referred to as the pound symbol on our home phones.In the era of social media, it has turned to the hashtag. We think of Twitter as inventing and popularizing the hashtag. It was Twitter users, not the company who pushed the use of the hashtag, and Twitter was adroit enough to latch onto it and capitalize on it. Since then, the hashtag has found it’s way onto Facebook and Google+ as well. Here is an infographic put together by The Huffington Post showing the basics of hastag use and the power of the symbol in today’s social media world.
