Facebook Hashtags Getting Closer?
Rumors began surfacing in March that Facebook would add a Twitter staple, hashtags, and now developer Tom Waddington uncovered evidence that the social network is getting closer to incorporating the feature in the form of a mention of “hashtag” in the software-development kit for JavaScript.
Rumors began surfacing in March that Facebook would add a Twitter staple, hashtags, and now developer Tom Waddington uncovered evidence that the social network is getting closer to incorporating the feature in the form of a mention of “hashtag” in the software-development kit for JavaScript.
Waddington shared his discovery with sister blog Inside Facebook, saying that the coding was likely intended for an XFBML hashtag plugin, similar to the hashtag-tracking widget Twitter provides for developers and publishers on its platform.
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