Twitter, Facebook hashtag, Apple E-Book negotiator

Twitter is Testing More Tools for Tracking Tweets

 

 

下火車，「歐斯本」和「尤斯頓」等詞就已成為推特熱門主題標籤 （hashtag），還有網友用「倫敦火車大勢利眼」（The Great Train Snobbery）和「永不肯花錢的保守黨」（The Never-Spending Tory）等雙關語來嘲笑他。

• hashtag  
• n. (on social networking websites such as Twitter) a hash or pound sign (#) used to identify a particular keyword or phrase in a posting.
•  A hashtag is a word or a phrase prefixed with the symbol #,^[1][2] a form of metadata tag. Short messages on microblogging social networking services such as Twitter, Tout, identi.ca, Tumblr, Instagram, or Google+ may be tagged by including one or more with multiple words concatenated, e.g.:
  

  #Wikipedia is an #encyclopedia

  Hashtags provide a means of grouping such messages, since one can search for the hashtag and get the set of messages that contain it.

Facebook Unveils Hashtags for Real-Time Public Conversations

Apple Negotiator Defends Tactics in E-Book Trial

By JULIE BOSMAN

Eddy Cue, a senior vice president for Apple, denied that the company colluded with publishers to fix e-book prices.