Twitter Question

[iolanthe_rosa]

Confused. What does it mean when something is preceded by the # sign? I follow @nprpolitics on Twitter, and they keep talking about #inaug09 that has something to do with the inauguration. Their "special coverage of #inaug09" begins at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday; "we've received 10,000 tweets so far for #inaug09" etc. What is this?

Comments

[thisside]

I think it's like a tag, so you can find people twittering about the same subject.

[iolanthe_rosa]

Oh, so does that mean that there is a place where I enter those characters, and it brings me to a screen that aggregates all the tweets using those characters? How do I get to that display?

[thisside]

I think you can do it at hashtags.org .

[thisside]

I just searched, you can also do it at http://search.twitter.com/

[iolanthe_rosa]

Well, what the heck do you know? That is a very cool feature. I looked at their help screens and everything. I feel like a doofus. THANK YOU!