Facebook Looking to Add Hashtag Functionality

By Rusty Blazenhoff on March 14, 2013

According to The Wall Street Journal, Menlo Park-based Facebook is looking to incorporate the hashtag functionality to its popular social network. The hashtag is a way to tag data using a “#” symbol and is most commonly associated with rival company Twitter (Chris Messina proposed the use of hashtags at Twitter in 2007).

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