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? asked in Society & CultureLanguages · 9 years ago

what does it mean when you put a pound sign in front of a word?

like #this.

i don't get it...

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    It's to tag something automatically. So if you want to mention the world cup you can say #worldcup and twitter or whatever will automatically tag it as a world cup related post. Then when other people look for world cup related topics, your post will come up.

    Source(s): The Internet. I didn't know either ;)
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