How to Create Twitter Hashtags

Adding hashtags to your tweets can help other interested parties find you easier.

When you're tackling a popular topic on Twitter, good social networkers know that the hashtag can go a long way toward spreading your message. By creating a hashtag, you're placing your post into a category with all the other posts that contain the same hashtag -- thereby making it easy for someone interested in that topic to search for and find your posts and others all at once. An added bonus: the process takes very little time.

Instructions

1. Log into your Twitter account by entering your username and password on the home page.

2. Type in the message you'd like to send out in the "What's Happening" box. Do not hit "Enter" or "Return" just yet.

3. Enter in the hashtag. At the end (or beginning, it's up to you) of the message, type in a "#" symbol followed by the word you would like associated with your post, with no spaces in between. For example, if you're commenting about a tornado that happened in your area, type in "#tornado" -- then hit "Enter" when you've entered in all the information you'd like to include in your post.

4. Look down at your timeline to view your own tweet. Your hashtag should appear in a different color than the rest of the tweet.

Tips & Warnings

• If you have extra characters left over after you've entered your message and hashtag, consider adding another hashtag. There's no limit to how many can fit in a post -- as long as the whole post is less than 140 characters.

References

• Twitter