What's a Hashtag Worth, Anyway?

Hashtags aren’t going anywhere. Despite the fact that they don’t seem to have done much for Facebook, Google will now let users to search for them—but the results will only display hashtags on Google+. Great plan, guys.

Still, some have had quite enough of the hashtag trend, thank you very much. Here’s Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon making fun of other people for using them.

That skit was pretty good, but it does raise two serious questions: “Are hashtags completely worthless?” and “Rocky the musical?!?!

Let’s discuss.

On a personal level, we only search hashtags due to fear of missing out on those trending Twitter jokes that certain people who are not us do so well.

Here are three other ways hashtags can work:

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