#Facebook finally launched clickable hashtags

Facebook finally integrates hashtags. These markers are using metadata on the Internet to mark the content with keywords. A process that assigns the contents of additional information to be grouped by themes, places or events useful for the day on all kinds of subjects, and facilitate research.

Introduced on Twitter in 2007, about a year after the creation of the microblogging site, the hashtag was then released on other social networks like Tumblr, Pinterest, or Instagram. Composed of a sharp (#) and a word or group of words attached the hashtag became a fad, which began to spread on Facebook: so far as the social network did not offer this feature some users wrote "words-sharp" not clickable, rendering obsolete their presence. Introducing clickable hashtags, Facebook is catching up and gives meaning to these markers metadata.

What is the Goal of Facebook? The introduction of hashtag should be a source of revenue for the social network similar to those of Twitter advertising formats that will probably be developed. Facebook could also offer some of its advertisers appear in a list of "trending topics", a device that relates to Twitter about 150,000 euros per advertiser per day ...

ILBAY Ibrahim