Five Annoying Ways People Use Hashtags In Tweets

Hashtags are great, aren’t they? They’re really great for organizing conversations and holding Twitter chats.

They can also be really, REALLY annoying.

Here are five annoying ways people use hashtags on Twitter.

#TeamFollowBack. Folks use this to indicate their willingness to engage in reciprocal following on Twitter. But adding this hashtag is unnecessary, as folks who “follow back” do so regardless – usually via auto-following apps. And we hear that seeing this hashtag invade their stream every day is a leading cause of brain aneurysms in Twitter purists.

#superlonglowercasehashtags.

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