#What #Is #This #?

[Melanie]

And by the way... I still don't know what it means. #

It's for Twitter, and unless you link your Facebook to Twitter, there really is no purpose in using it on Facebook, unless I'm missing something, which is quite possible.

On Twitter, here's a post from Carol yesterday, who's at Disneyland -

Waiting for World of Color. On our balcony in our jammies. #CaliforniaAdventure #grandcalifornian /cr http://pic.twitter.com/hvjn9OR3

Within that post, the #CaliforniaAdventure and #grandcalifornian become links on Twitter. Click on one of them, and you'll see others who have hashtagged (linked) the same subject.

So say you are interested in beer. You could search #beer, #moosehead, #guinness, etc.

Lots of big events make official hashtags as well, you know, kinda like #ICOT15.

[Melanie]

omg, mel, that's so old school! You used the whole words! :d

#omg

[AgentC]

It's for Twitter, and unless you link your Facebook to Twitter, there really is no purpose in using it on Facebook, unless I'm missing something, which is quite possible.

I have never seen it on FB either unless it was a feed from Twitter. #fb tells certain programs to send the Tweet to your Facebook page.

The other nice thing about hashtags is on certain Twitter clients you can set up a column just for a hashtag. So I could tell Tweetdeck to show me all #ICOT15 tweets so I don't miss anything.

And as TinkerbellT421 mentioned sometimes people use the # before something that is supposed to be funny or to emphasize something.

As far as Twitter itself, for me it took a bit of getting used to. Even if you don't want to tweet, it is worth signing up and following Intercot. Melanie does a great job and Carol has been tweeting some phenomenal photos from DL this week.

[badkitty]

This is very interesting. Ugh. I'm not on Facebook. I don't tweet. I guess I'm behind the times but who has time? I can barely get through all the posts I want to read on Intercot.

[Melanie]

This is very interesting. Ugh. I'm not on Facebook. I don't tweet. I guess I'm behind the times but who has time? I can barely get through all the posts I want to read on Intercot.

Totally understand. Like we said, it's not for everyone. It is another means of social media though, and is a pretty popular regarding communication within the Disney community.

[bleukarma]

As far as I know you can also get a subject "trending" on twitter by using hashtags (#). I think that means its the top 10(?) things that are being talked about and I think it shows up on the twitter home page. I could be wrong because I always check my twitter on my phone.

But during Intercot's 15th anniversary party if well all tweet out #icot15 from our twitter account then who knows...we may become trending on twitter!

[MNNHFLTX]

But during Intercot's 15th anniversary party if well all tweet out #icot15 from our twitter account then who knows...we may become trending on twitter!

Hmm, interesting thought....