This Webopedia.com guide to Twitter hashtags for technology topics provides descriptions of the most popular tech-related hashtags used in Twitter today.
What is a Twitter Hashtag?
On Twitter, a hashtag is a way for users to organize tweets for Twitter search engines. Using hashtags helps others to discover your tweets when searching Twitter. The hashtag is the pound symbol (#), followed by the keyword or phrase that describes the main topic of the message (e.g. #technology). You can think of a hashtag as shorthand to summarize your messages. When users search Twitter using a hashtag query, all tweets containing the hashtag will be shown in the search results.
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How do I Choose a Hashtag and How Many Can I Use?
Simply add the pound sign (#) to the main word that describes the focus of your tweet. For example, if you are tweeting about your Apple iPad, you might include #iPad or #iOS to your Twitter message.
Quick Tip: Hashtags are not case-sensitive, but don’t use spaces. For example #CloudComputing not #Cloud Computing.
The point of using hashtags is to categorize your messages, so using more than one hashtag is OK just don’t overdo it! For example, if you found a great news article about the state of CRM today, it is perfectly acceptable to include both the #CRM and #News hashtags.
109 Twitter Technology Hashtags to Organize and Find Tweets
This Webopedia.com guide to Twitter hashtags for technology provides descriptions of some of the most popular tech and computing-related hashtags used in Twitter. This list is useful to those searching Twitter for relevant technology conversations or those who want to organize their own tech tweets.
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Quick Tip: Click each #hashtag in the list below to all view real-time Twitter search results. Click the related @Name links to follow official Twitter accounts.
“A” Twitter Tags for Computing and Technology Topics
#AMD Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Follow: @AMDRadeon.
#Analytics General analytics topics (e.g. BI, CRM, Web analytics).
#Android Android Mobile operating System (OS). Follow: @Android, @AndroidDev.
#Answers Tweets that provide answers to a specific question.
#App Commonly refers to mobile apps. Can also mean enterprise apps.
#AppDev Topics of interest to application (app) developers.
#Apple Apple Corporation.
“B” Twitter Tags for Computing and Technology Topics
#B2B General business-to-business (B2B) topics.
#BI General business intelligence (BI) topics.
#BigData General big data topics. Often used with #Data. Follow @NetworkNotes.
#Biz General business topics. Same as #business.
#BlackBerry General BlackBerry topics (company or device related). Follow @BlackBerry.
#Business General business topics. Same as #biz.
“C” Twitter Tags for Computing and Technology Topics
#CEM Customer experience management (CEM), Customer management topics.
#Cloud General cloud computing topics. Same as #CloudComputing. Follow InfoStorOnline.
#CloudBackup General cloud computing backup and storage topics.
#CloudComputing General cloud computing topics. Same as #Cloud.
#ContentMarketing General Web content marketing topics.
#Convergence Technology convergence. Usually associated with data center or telecom topics.
#CRM General customer relationship management (CRM) topics. Follow @EntApps2Day.
#CSS Web development using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Often used with #WebDev.
“D” Twitter Tags for Computing and Technology Topics
#Data General topics about data. Often used with #BigData.
#DataCenter General data center topics.
#Datamining General data mining topics.
#Devs Topics of interest to developers (devs). Follow @DeveloperCom.
“E” Twitter Tags for Computing and Technology Topics
#ecommerce General electronic commerce (ecommerce) topics.
#Epic Indicates a company or product did something amazing.
#Ethernet General analytics topics related to Ethernet. Follow @NetworkNotes.
“F” Twitter Tags for Computing and Technology Topics
#Fail Indicates a company or product did something that didn’t work well.
#FCoE General analytics topics related to Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE).
“G” Twitter Tags for Computing and Technology Topics
#Gadgets General gadgets and device topics.
#Gartner Indicates Gartner research or analysis. Follow @Gartner_inc.
#GreenIT General green IT & green initiatives and computing topics.
“H” Twitter Tags for Computing and Technology Topics
#Hadoop General Apache Hadoop topics. Follow @TheASF.
#Hardware General computer hardware topics.
#HealthIT General Health Information Technology topics. Same as #HIT.
#HIT General Health Information Technology (HIT) topics. Same as #HealthIT.
#HR General human resources (HR) and HR management topics.
#HTML5 General HTML5 topics. Often used with #WebDev. Follow @htmlgoodies.
“I” Twitter Tags for Computing and Technology Topics
#IBM International Business Machines Corp. Follow @IBM, @IBMWatson.
#Infographic Indicates infographic content or link.
#iOS Apple’s mobile operating system for its iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Apple TV.
#iPad General Apple iPad device topics.|
#iPhone General Apple iPhone device topics.
#IT General Information Technology (IT) topics.
“J” Twitter Tags for Computing and Technology Topics
#Jobs General jobs/work topics (e.g. job statistics, openings and hiring).
“K” Twitter Tags for Computing and Technology Topics
#KDE General open source K Desktop Environment topics. Follow @kdecommunity.
“L” Twitter Tags for Computing and Technology Topics
#Leadership General leadership and thought leadership topics.
#Linux General Linux topics. Follow @linuxfoundation.
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Quick Tip: Click each #hashtag in the list below to all view real-time Twitter search results. Click the related @Name links to follow official Twitter accounts.
“M” Twitter Tags for Computing and Technology Topics
#Management General business management topics.
#Marketers Topics of interest to online and social marketers.
#Marketing General Marketing topics.
#Microsoft Microsoft Corporation. Follow @Microsoft.
#Mobile General mobile device topics.
#MobileDev Topics of interest to mobile developers (e.g. design, software, tools).
#MSFT Microsoft Corporation. Follow @Microsoft.
“N” Twitter Tags for Computing and Technology Topics
#News Topics that are making news headlines, or tweets with links to a news story.
#Networking General topics and discussion about computer networking. Follow @NetworkNotes.
“O” Twitter Tags for Computing and Technology Topics
#Office365 Microsoft Office 365. Follow @Office365.
#OpenFlow Open Flow, Open Networking Foundation (ONF). Follow @openflow.
#OpenCloud OpenCloud LTD, Open Cloud Initiative. Follow @OpenCloudLTD, @opencloud.
#OpenSource General open source software and development topics.
#Oracle Oracle Corporation. Follow @Oracle.
“P” Twitter Tags for Computing and Technology Topics
#PatchTuesday Microsoft security patch releases and discussion.
#PC General computer topics.
#PHP General PHP and developer discussion.
#PredictiveAnalytics General predictive analytics topics. Often used with #Analytics.
“Q” Twitter Tags for Computing and Technology Topics
#Quote Quotable quotes about any topic, famous quotes.
“R” Twitter Tags for Computing and Technology Topics
#Rails General Ruby on Rails (Rails) open source framework topics. Often used with #Ruby.
#Ruby General Ruby (programming language) topics. Often used with #Rails.
“S” Twitter Tags for Computing and Technology Topics
#SAP SAP AG and SAP products. Follow @SAP.
#SCRM General social customer relationship management (SCRM) topics.
#SDN General software defined networking (SDN) topics. Follow @NetworkNotes.
#Security General computer and network security discussion. Follow eSecurityP.
#SEO General search engine optimization (SEO) topics.
#SmallBiz General topics of interest to small businesses.
#Smartphone General mobile and smartphone topics.
#SMB General topics of interest small-to-midsize business (SMB).
#SMM Used in tweets about Social Media Marketing (SMM).
#Social General social media topics and discussion. Same as #SocialMedia.
#SocialBiz Used in tweets about Social Media and small businesses.
#SocialMedia General social media topics and discussion. Same as #Social.
#SSD General solid state storage (SSD) topics and discussion.
#Storage General data storage topics and discussion. Follow InfoStorOnline.
#Strategy General topics about business, corporate or product strategy.
#Surface General Microsoft Surface Tablet topics. Often used with #Tablet.
#SurfacePro General Microsoft Surface Pro tablet topics. Often used with #Tablet.
“T” Twitter Tags for Computing and Technology Topics
#Tablet General tablet / mobile device topics.
#Tech General technology topics. Same as #Technology.
#Techfail Indicates a technology-related company or product did something that didn’t work well.
#Technology General technology topics. Same as #Tech.
#TipsAndTricks Tweets that provide how-to, best practice and tips advice.
#TradeShow General tradeshow and event discussion, live tweets from a tradeshow.
#Trends – Notes a company, product or industry trend. Often used with #News.
#Twitter General Twitter topics.
“U” Twitter Tags for Computing and Technology Topics
#UX General user experience (UX) design topics.
“V” Twitter Tags for Computing and Technology Topics
#Virtualization General virtualization topics. Follow @serverwatch
#VMware VMware, Inc. Follow @VMware.
“W” Twitter Tags for Computing and Technology Topics
#Web General Web-related topics (design, software etc.)
#WebDev Topics of interest to a Web developer (e.g. design, software, tools).
#WebDesign General Web development and design topics.
#Whitepaper Indicates white paper (research) content or link.
#Win8 General Windows 8 discussion and topics.
#Win8Dev Windows 8 development topics.
#WP8 General Windows 8 discussion and topics.
“X” Twitter Tags for Computing and Technology Topics
#Xen General open source Xen (virtual machine) topics.
#XML General Extensible Markup Language (XML) topics. Often used with #WebDev.
“Y” Twitter Tags for Computing and Technology Topics
#Yahoo Yahoo Inc. Follow @Yahoo.
#YouTube General YouTube topics and discussion. Follow @YouTube.
“Z” Twitter Tags for Computing and Technology Topics
#ZeroDay General discussion about security, exploit and vulnerabilities.
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This article was last updated on May 09, 2013
