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The GIF, a popular animated image format in the 80s, persevered and found a new place on the Internet. Where is this new place? Chances are you are using it now.

The hashtag can be a very useful tool, but a powerful one. What you put after that little hashtag can bring you great success but potential failure. A thoughtful hashtag plan is well worth the time for a small business.

Start-up Hshtags.com combines all hashtagged posts on major social media sources into a single feed facilitating social media browsing.

After Facebook took part in the hashtag craze, another industry leader has upgraded to allow users to access hashtag information: Google+.

Facebook released the hashtag feature to make live TV interaction easier, Twitter announced Twitter Amplify, and Nielsen reports that social TV use is growing.

Facebook is looking to improve its search and indexing capabilities by adding the hashtag symbol, one of the most recognizable features of its social networking rival Twitter.

New York - American Express is introducing a new service on Twitter that allows its customers to make purchases through specialized tweets. The new feature is called "Amex Sync" and by including a special hashtags, consumers can purchase items.

The word "hashtag" has been voted word of the year in the annual list issued by the American Dialect Society. This year marks the vote's 23rd year.

It has been revealed that a mother named her new baby girl Hashtag, but instead of posting the announcement to Twitter, as one would expect of a genuine Twitter fan, she posted it to Facebook.