All over the city of Luanda, the walls and walls of the most showy places are "decorated" with pamphlets announcing the release of the new album by Angolan rapper Kid MC, you may be wondering What makes a rapper on a technology siteCalm down, I'll explain! The great news is that the rapper decided to innovate in choosing the album title using a hashtag, #SHADOW.
For the simple mortals who do not speak the language of the NERDs, here is the definition of hashtag, by Wikipedia:
Hashtags they are keywords preceded by the symbol "#", which designate the subject which is being discussed in real time on Twitter and has also been added to Facebook. At hashtags seen hyperlinks within the network and indexable by search engines. As a result, users can either click on hashtags or search through mechanisms such as Google to access everyone who has participated in the discussion.
A use of hashtags, when done well, is an excellent strategy to integrate people around a theme or event. Usually, the mediator indicates the hashtag to be used (in this case, the Kid MC) anyone who makes a post related to the subject can include the hashtag in the text, which automatically becomes a link. When we click on this link or do a search in the search bar with the hashtag we are directed to a kind of “collaborative wall” where all comments on the subject in question are listed.
In that case, if I want to keep track of what Facebook people are saying about Kid MC's new album I simply go to the search bar, I look for: #SOMBRA and something looks like the image below.
If you tried to research the hashtag #SOMBRA you noticed that posts appear that have nothing to do with Kid MC's album, this shock happens because the word “shade” is very common and used for many things. As I said above, the use of hashtags must be well done, a good tip is not to use a very common word or combine words, eg: #SombraKidMC
If you are interested in knowing a little more about how to use hashtags, read the article “The how to use #hashtags on Facebook manual ... for dummies!”Published by youPIX. Take the opportunity to leave a comment here on how you have used or intend to use hashtags.
Curious fact: Rapper Dji Tafinha, who had some differences for some time “beefes”With Kid MC, used the technology of his latest album in technology QR Code. Is beef now technological?
