Facebook to use Twitter hashtag style
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An illustration picture shows the log-on screen for the Website Facebook on an Ipad, in Bordeaux, Southwestern France, in this Jan 30, 2013 file photo. Facebook is preparing to take on Twitter by adopting the messaging service's iconic hashtag symbol, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. -- FILE PHOTO: REUTERS
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Facebook is preparing to take on Twitter by adopting the messaging service's iconic hashtag symbol, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
Users of globally popular one-to-many messaging service Twitter use # or pound symbols as a hashtag to indicate subjects in tweets.
The style is such an entrenched part of the Twitter language that the San Francisco-based company added a hashtag search feature to make it easy for users to find messages focused on themes or happenings of interest.
For example, people firing off messages at Twitter about a hurricane might use the hashtag #storm.
