Stepping up your Instagram game takes some skill. You can start by tweaking your bio so it includes the most effective use of the alloted character count or you can take an Instagram photography ...

Since its inception, social media has been created for following people. On Tuesday, a certain photo-based app turned that on its head, announcing the option to automatically keep up with hashtags as ...

If you're new to Twitter, or even if you've been using it for years, you may wonder what all those words preceded by the # sign are. They're hashtags. And you should consider using them if you want to ...

Instagram is testing out ways to make hashtags more valuable by adjusting how top posts are ranked on hashtag pages. Now, more recent and timely content will be surfaced in the section that curates ...

Hashtags are everywhere — except for Facebook. You'll find the keywords, which begin with the "#" symbol and allow you to search for topics, on Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr and video app Vine, but not ...

In the early days, hashtags were only used by the social media early adopters. As understanding grew of how hashtags work, they became widely embraced by the marketing and advertising industry. Today, ...

Hashtags help journalists find people tweeting about topics they are covering. They also help people who are interested in the topics you cover find your tweets. My second #twutorial post on Twitter ...

While you can use Twitter’s search tool to find specific people, companies, and their messages (“tweets”) on the service, Hashtags allow users to sort topics into useful categories to revisit later.

To use or not to use hashtags? For many people, that is the question. So here’s the answer from Kevan Lee of Buffer, the tool that lets you schedule, automate, and analyze social-media updates.

Instagram has finally rolled out what should prove to be one of the most important updates to the platform since its inception. You can now follow hashtags. Until now, Instagram posts have been ...

Google+ started supporting hashtags in May, and today the company announced that Google Search will now allow you to search for Google+ posts by using these hashtags. Given that there’s a little bit ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. If you’re new to Twitter, or even if you’ve been using it for years, you may wonder what all those words preceded by the # sign are. They ...