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The difference between a tag and a hashtag is functionally inconsequenctial. The Hash "#" is a form of markup that signifies that the following word should be treated as a tag. Most tag systems share a common usage, see Folksonomy. Hash tags are uniquely well suited to user written content because they allow users to input text and metadata together in the ...
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Hashtags are just tags with a form of markdown to let you know that they are a tag. In essence the hash (#) is just formatting.
If you are going go visually mark tags so that they don't look like simple text, then you don't need the hash (#), as it is redundant. It's already clear that these are tags:
Adding a hash doesn't give you any additional ...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashtag
Hashtags are mostly used as unmoderated ad-hoc discussion forums; any combination of characters led by a hash sign is a hashtag, and any hashtag, if promoted by enough individuals, can "trend" and attract more individual users to discussion using the hashtag.
The tag you are talking of in this context is a ...
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