This is a hash -> #
This is a hashtag -> #hashtag
This is not a hashtag -> # <- it’s just a hash.
I’m sick of people on TV and/or radio saying, “Send us a tweet using @someone hashtag funnysaying”. No. It’s either, “Send us a tweet using @someone hash funnysaying” or “Send us a tweet to @someone with the hashtag funnysaying”.
Get it?
Hash -> #
Hashtag -> #plussomewords
This is you: http://www.explosm.net/comics/2712/
If I could arsed to blog these days I would have written something similar – but I doubt I would have managed to get across the same amount of punch 😉 At least not without using the word f*** several times!