THE HASHTAG CLUB on Clubhouse

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⚜ THE HASHTAG CLUB ⚜
A space where we discuss social media use and the benefits of hashtags including how creators & brands can monetise content / campaigns.

#️⃣ Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Clubhouse, Pinterest, Gistmine.

🗓📍TIMETABLE
🕘 Every Monday, 6pm (GMT) / 1pm EST

⚜ BECOME A MEMBER OF THE CLUB ⚜
Follow the club. Members receive and share tips on using and benefiting from social media hashtags.

#️⃣ WHAT IS A HASHTAG?
A hashtag is a metadata tag that is prefaced by the pound sign or hash symbol, # (not to be confused with the pound currency sign). Hashtags are used on microblogging and social-sharing services such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram,Tiktok and WeChat as a form of user-generated tagging that enables cross-referencing of content; that is, sharing a topic or theme.

And hashtags are a very important element or feature in social media as they can help you find what you want to read about, add humor or context to a post, and help your own posts go viral. 

SOME FACTS:
#️⃣ Hashtags was 1st proposed by blogger Chris Messina in a 2007 tweet.

#️⃣ In 2013, Twitter purportedly told the Wall Street Journal that "these things are for nerds" and their use "wouldn't be adopted widely".

#️⃣ In June 2014, hashtag was added to the Oxford English Dictionary as a word  or phrase preceeded with the symbol #  and used on social media applications search for all messages with the same subject or topic.

#️⃣ Languages that do not use word dividers handle hashtags differently. In China, microblogs such as Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo use a double-hashtag-delimited #HashName# format, since the lack of spacing between Chinese characters necessitates a closing tag.

#️⃣ Twitter uses a different syntax for Chinese characters and orthographies with similar spacing conventions - the hashtag contains unspaced characters, separated from preceding and following text by spaces (e.g., '我 #爱 你' instead of '我#爱你').

#️⃣ Hashtags are not case sensitive  - a search for "#hashtag" will match "#HashTag" as well. However, the use of embedded capitals (i.e., DigitalCreator) increases legibility and improves accessibility.

#️⃣ Misuse of hashtags  such as; 
• Adding hashtags to unrelated posts
• Repeated use of the same hashtag without adding to a conversation
can filter an account from search results, or suspend the account.

#️⃣ Individual platforms may deactivate certain hashtags either for being too generic.
⚜🚨#1: 🔘 #BE KIND 🌿
Be respectful. Avoid talking over others and apologise when that happens.

🔘 #BE HELPFUL 🪂
Endevour to provide value to the room if on stage and intend to speak.
⚜🚨#2: 🔘 #NO PITCHING ⚾️
No pitching or going off topic without prior agreement. Disclosure must be given on interests or conflict when contributing to any discussions.
⚜🚨#3: 🔘 #NO HATE SPEECH OR BULLYING 🗣☠
No hate speech or bullying based d improve colour, creed, culture, religion, beliefs or gender. Treat everyone with dignity.