I can’t find either one on this red, white and true blue keyboard.
Socialist.
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Regards,
Shodan
I use it daily at work. As in defining a number of items. Pt needs #90 tablets please.
And here’s another one.
Do phones still have extensions? How about wall phones? And how about party lines?
The “#” IS the hashtag, as twitter defined it, because its parser looks for the hash symbol as the tag for the upcoming keyword, and then gets the keyword to do statistical magic.
This is not a confusing concept people. But maybe it’s because I have a bit of coding/scripting experience and know a little bit about parsing. The # symbol is the tag for the parser, so it is the hashtag. But it’s only a hashtag when used as an actual tag for parsing.
I don’t use Facebook or Twitter or any of that. Just what does a hashtag do? I looked on wiki and don’t get it. Is it like a hyperlink?
I had NEVER heard of this # called a ‘hash’ until just recently. It’s a pound sign or octothorpe or possibly a sharp.
The octothorpe can be called different things based on its usage. There. 
I already said it but “tic tac toe grid/playground.”
Poor man’s swastika?
No, it has to be a pound sign followed by at least one non white-space character before it’s parsed as a hashtag. A naked # is parsed like any other character. You can verify this by sending a tweet with a # in it. The # will show up in black instead of brown (or blue if you use Twitteriffic). Even two ## doesn’t parse as a hashtag.
It’s just a symbol to mark the next word as a keyword, so that the tweet or facebook post gets grouped with other like tweets/posts. If you just tweet Some Hollywood sound mixer is an asshole, it will get lost in anonymity. But if you tweet “Some Hollywood sound mixer is an asshole #SoundMixerControvery” then anybody searching for #SoundMixerControversy would see your tweet. Twitter and facebook also watch for the most frequently occurring hashtag labels to call things ‘trending.’ Or the Tonight Show can ask people to post jokes about soccer players biting people and tell them to hashtag it #TonightShowSoccerBites.
Nothing magic, it’s just useful because real words don’t start with #. It’s an ‘escape character’ to dinosaurs like us.