Saturday, March 16, 2013

Facebook is copying Twitter feature “Hashtag”


First of all famous American newspaper Wall Street Journal leaked Facebook plan for launching Hashtag feature today on its official website. Wall Street Journal further stated that, Hashtag # will be used for group conversation initially only but later on it could be used for other purposes like twitter.  It seems uncertain that how Facebook Hashtag (#) will really work and will it be like Twitter’s Hashtag or different.

Hashtag is a symbol used for (#). Hashtag is very much famous in twitter for collecting tweets and information related to any topic by simply tying Hashtag before any word. For example
  •  #pop this week
  •  #songs by xyz signers
  • # Movies this month
  • Etc

Social Media analyst are saying that Facebook has started to copy twitter’s features as there is no any restriction under law. Twitter will seriously notice this issue if they feels any familiarity between Hashtag of Twitter with Facebook. Twitter is using Hashtag (#) for many years. In Twitter Hashtag is used for collecting any information related to specific single topic, place, event or anything else.

Today, Hashtag # is not only used for collecting specific information regarding some specific topic or product etc but, it also helps in building advertising strategies for both users and advertisers (products/brands/companies). Introducing Hashtag (#) in Facebook can start highly competition between Twitter and Facebook for advertising revenues and attracting companies for making their own Hashtags for specific brands, products or goodwill etc. According to some strong sources, using Hashtag (#) will definitely boost advertising revenue of Facebook.

E-Marketing Analyst said Facebook is continuously copying some of Twitter’s famous features. Some of them are as follows;
  • Using @ sign for tagging of famous brands and superstars
  • Using Subscriber features listing for its members
  • Now Facebook is going to copy a new feature of Hashtag (#) for group conversation purpose.

According to GMA News, Facebook was the first social media website used for advertisement and later Twitter came but Twitter quickly changed its design in order to make more space for advertisements and hence Facebook has also recently changed its design for vary purpose. After launching of Hashtag (#), it could be said that Facebook will be more attractive to advertisers like Twitter and hence it will increase Facebook advertisement earning.  Keep visiting my blog for more latest updates about Hashtag, Twitter, Facebook and their features.

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