Hashtag vs Hashbang - What's the difference?
hashtag | hashbang |
(Internet) A metadata tag, signaled by a preceding hash sign (#), used to label content.
* 2007 Aug 25, Stowe Boyd, tweet, https://twitter.com/stoweboyd/status/226570552
* 2009 , Paul McFedries, Pete Cashmore, Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets
* 2009 , Alistair Croll, Sean Power, Complete Web Monitoring
* 2011 , Rory Stewart, "Here we go again", London Review of Books , 33.VII:
(informal) The hash sign itself.
(Internet) To label (a message) with a hashtag.
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As nouns the difference between hashtag and hashbang
is that hashtag is (internet) a metadata tag, signaled by a preceding hash sign (#), used to label content while hashbang is (computing) a shebang (#! character sequence). As a verb hashtag
is (internet) to label (a message) with a hashtag.hashtag
English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia hashtag)- I support the hash tag' convention: http://tiny url.com/2qttlb '
- hashtag
#factoryjoe #twitter
- You can also search for a hashtag by typing a topic (without the
- ) in the search box and clicking Search.
- While hashtags aren't formally part of Twitter, some clients, such as Tweetdeck, will persist hashtags across replies to create a sort of message threading.
- The planes are moving into position. The foreign ministers of minor Arab states are taking calls on their cell-phones from Western politicians. Twitter accounts explode around the Libyan hash-tag .