WTH:About
What the Hashtag?! is a user-editable encyclopedia for hashtags found on Twitter.
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What are Hashtags?
Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets, similar to how tags work for blogs. Anyone can create a hashtag. To start a hashtag, just prefix any word with the pound symbol: #wth
For more on using hashtags to track topics, visit Microblink.
What Do Hashtags Do?
Hashtags are a method for grouping related tweets. If you are going to a conference, there is probably a designated hashtag. When you add that hashtag to your tweets, it makes it easier for other attendees to see what you are saying about the event. Hashtags are also helpful in finding other users who have similar interests.
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WTH?! is powered by MediaWiki, which allows us to open up authorship to everyone who wants to participate. Our bot actively monitors Twitter for trending hashtags and creates new pages as they grow in popularity. Then it's up to the users (you!) to fill in the details.
Origins of WTH?!
The idea for WTH?! was sparked by the fact that there was not one central place online where you could learn about what the hell different hashtags meant. There are plenty of ways to track them, but WTH?! exists to educate people about what the hashtags stand for and where users can find more information about them.
Help Us Help Others
If you are a regular user of hashtags to track conversations about events, ideas, topics, etc., please check to see that those hashtags are listed in our database for the benefit of Twitter users everywhere.
What the Hashtag?! was developed by Microblink, the source for news, reviews and opinions surrounding the world of microblogging.