Hashtags and trending topics are generally viewed as something of a global effect. While many hashtags are used to indicate the current activity of a Twitter party (such as #travelskills) or a current ...

Hashtags became popular in 2007 when Twitter decided to give the pound sign a promotion. Today, hashtags are more popular and productive than ever and show no signs of slowing down. If you have been ...

Everyone does it these days, tag their photos on social media feeds to announce their aspirations when it comes to their appearance or fitness objectives (#BootyGoals, #ThighGap, #PerfectBody), or ...

Melissa Groo, the photographer behind the stunning giraffe photograph that graces Smithsonian Magazine’s March cover, knows better than most how to draw people's attention to the wild and the majestic ...

As American foreign policy continues its long string of failures—not a series of singles and doubles, as President Obama asserted in a recent news conference, but rather season upon season of fouls ...

WASHINGTON – Mass schoolgirl kidnapping in Nigeria – to tweet or not to tweet? Is hashtagging one’s indignation about some outrage abroad an exercise in moral narcissism or a worthy new way of ...