Brands still struggle with the hashtag – some more than most. What starts as a good-natured appeal to the public often ends in a feeding frenzy of snark and outrage. To avoid a #HashtagFail, Twitter’s ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- Thursday morning, Twitter became a publicly traded company. Stocks soared and put the value of the social-media company at more than $30 billion. So with Twitter in the news, we ...

Getting a hashtag to trend can be difficult to do. Most attempts to get a hashtag trending fail miserably. There are so many variables that go into what creates virality. Most importantly, it comes ...

What is the origin of this # mysterious symbol? It’s gone by many names, (the pound sign, the number sign, the octothorpe and the hashtag symbol) and it’s had many meanings, but what is the origin of ...

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Bev Gooden, creator of the hashtag #whyIstayed. The hashtag took off in September after the Ray Rice scandal, when many asked why women stay in abusive relationships.

Women rule social media. They dominate Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram, and stand click-to-click with men on Twitter and Tumblr. It's not all pretty pictures. This is truly the breakout year for ...