Do you know what makes me surprised on Facebook?
It is a Hash tag "#" just a feature or a sign that I always use it to promote contents generated automatically to another short-text-share social media, Twitter, and I have been waiting for on this most popular network as well.
What does Hash tag "#" on social media give advantage for you?
Let me express my personal view on this tag "# - Hash" that is used by popular social media networks like Google+, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, or Pinterest, and recent days on Facebook to help people more easily discover what others are saying about a specific topic and participate in public conversations. It helps you to increase or improve your SEO when your contents sharing any linked topics on it.
Facebook's Hashtags are clickable and allow you to add context to a post or indicate that it is part of a larger discussion. When you click on a hashtag in Facebook, you'll see a feed of what other people and Pages are saying about that event or topic.
And referring to a post on Newsroom that explained as the following:
Hashtags are just the first step to help people more easily discover what others are saying about a specific topic and participate in public conversations. We'll continue to roll out more features in the coming weeks and months, including trending hashtags and deeper insights, that help people discover more of the world's conversations.So I hope we will get more nice features for the-introduce-hashtags in Facebook on next coming days.
How Facebook's Hashtags differentiate with other social medias?
The below I have raised up some experiences (how-to, what can or cannot ...) that found through my daily use on them (Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr):
*Facebook:
• Clickable on both desktop's web interface (smart device's one, on the way?)
• Search for a specific hashtag from your search bar. For example, #KhmerRoyalPalace (as above photo).
• Click on hashtags that originate on other services, such as Instagram or inside comments (it's a nice point I prefer).
• Compose posts directly from the hashtag feed and search results
• Searchable by filling in URL address (https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/FillingText), just copy this url into internet browser then replace on the word "FillingText" what you want to search for, available only when user logged-in.
*Google+:
• Clickable on both desktop's web interface & smart devices's apps
• Powerful search on hash topic on Search box, only on desktop's web interface (type "#" in front of word, e.g. #Cambodia)
• Categorical search hash topic such as Everything, People, Communities, Google+ posts, Photos, and more & view-able by Best of or Most recent (available on desktop's web interface)
• Searchable by filling in URL address (https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/%23FillingText), just copy this url into internet browser then replace on the word "FillingText" what you want to search for even there's no user log-in.
*Twitter:
• Clickable on both desktop's web interface & smart devices's apps
• Searchable on hash topic on Search box (type "#" in front of word, e.g. #Cambodia)
• View-able hash topic by Top or All
• Searchable by filling in URL address (https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23FillingText&src=hash), just copy this url into internet browser then replace on the word "FillingText" what you want to search for even there's no user log-in.
*Instagram:
• Clickable only on smart devices's apps
• Searchable on hash topic only by smart device's apps
• No view-able hash topic by category (on smart device)
• No search on URLs
*Tumblr:
• Clickable on both desktop's web interface & smart devices's apps
• Searchable on hash topic on Search box while viewing any topic
• Main view-able hash topic as slideshow
• Searchable by filling in URL address (http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/FillingText) or personal url (e.g. http://chamnanmuon.tumblr.com/tagged/FillingText), just copy this url into internet browser then replace on the word "FillingText" what you want to search for even there's no user log-in.
Finally, what the most hash tags have been used nicely and let start to use it as marketing campaign.
• Clickable on both desktop's web interface & smart devices's apps
• Searchable on hash topic on Search box while viewing any topic
• Main view-able hash topic as slideshow
• Searchable by filling in URL address (http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/FillingText) or personal url (e.g. http://chamnanmuon.tumblr.com/tagged/FillingText), just copy this url into internet browser then replace on the word "FillingText" what you want to search for even there's no user log-in.
Finally, what the most hash tags have been used nicely and let start to use it as marketing campaign.