By wrapping the entire purchasing process in a hashtag, the service makes buying fast and easy.
It may be one of the existential questions of this age: how can a hashtag have a trademark?
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The backlash had hit the Internet, and a hashtag on Twitter was created.
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Is an accusation of hypocrisy any less insulting when prefixed by a hashtag?
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An event powered by a hashtag breathes outwards, it is open for anyone to join, talk about, share, and spread.
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Facebook's work on a hashtag is a sign of the heightening battle between Facebook and Twitter, as both compete for mobile users and fight for advertising dollars.
The innovation does not start and end with a hashtag.
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This time, the news is about a big-time partnership with American Express that aims to make purchases as easy as a hashtag, tapping into the still nascent, but growing, social side of e-commerce.
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While this is certainly not the first foray into linking a Twitter account to a credit card, this is the first time consumers are able to directly purchase something just through tweeting a hashtag.
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Facebook is testing whether to follow Twitter's lead and allow users to click on a hashtag to pull up all posts about similar topics or events so it can quickly index conversations around trending topics and build those conversations up, giving users more reason to stay logged in and see more ads.
Credit-card holders post a specific hashtag on Twitter to trigger payments from their accounts.
It's now possible to buy goods online in two steps by tweeting a special hashtag.
By determining a specific hashtag, you can have people tweet their questions or thoughts during your talk.
The point is that an authentic dialogue with customers or a witty hashtag can elicit the organic response organizations are chasing.
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Canadian eYeka user Clementine came up with the idea, which she says is like a Twitter hashtag, but in the real world.
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So does this - I mean, this time, the 37th time take making it into a trending hashtag, does that help the Republicans?
Rebecca Minkoff and Kenneth Cole beamed live tweets on the walls, with Cole pledging donations to amFAR if a certain hashtag was used during the show.
After mentions from key "Twitterati" like Rio Ferdinand, who has over a million followers, the hashtag became a smash.
American Express members who sign up will be able to buy products by mentioning the appropriate hashtag in a Tweet.
The hashtag is a play on "omnishambles, " from the BBC TV series "The Thick of It, " a satire of British government.
The BOS ice tea robot, called BEV, connects to the Twitter Streaming API and registers the configured hashtag as a filter.
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The Sochi hashtag is a reference to next February's Winter Olympics in Russia, where the 28-year-old hopes to defend her downhill gold from Vancouver 2010.
The women's rights activist Manal al-Sharif has launched a Twitter campaign using the hashtag "Ana Lama" (Arabic for "I am Lama") to demand legislation criminalising violence against women or children, the BBC's Sebastian Usher reports.
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With Twitter becoming more and more popular, there's now a drive to succinctly summarise a hot topic with the perfect hashtag.
The term, easily hashtag-able and just a single world, carries all the elements of a made for social media attack.
Social media such as Twitter also showed the scandal as a hot topic, cited under the hashtag shorthand of "notw" for News of the World, the Murdoch publication that was shut down this month because of phone-hacking allegations, experts said.
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During the afternoon, I noticed on the twitter stream using the hashtag an emphasis on volunteerism as a great way to give.
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This contains another hashtag that must be posted in a fresh tweet by the user within 15 minutes to make the sale to go through.
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