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Posted: 5/11/2011 6:54:55 PM EDT

What the hell does this mean? I am seeing recently on quite a few TV shows where in the bottom left corner they will have the pound sign followed by a word or phrase relating to something happening in the show. What the fuck is this for?

Posted: 5/11/2011 6:58:25 PM EDT

[#1]

I think it has something to do with twitter.

I have nothing to do with social networking anymore, so I can't be sure.

Posted: 5/11/2011 7:01:02 PM EDT

[#2]

It's some kind of tag thing that uploads whatever you say before that to some website.

Example: 9mm>45 #ARFcom would put "9mm>45" on some website under the ARFcom section.

Posted: 5/11/2011 7:03:03 PM EDT

[#3]

Twitter tag.

Basically if you were to put #afghanistan in a twitter post, that word will be 'tagged'. Thus anyone wanting to look up recent tweets that have that tag in it can simply click on the #afghanistan to see everyone who's tagged that word.

Posted: 5/11/2011 7:06:12 PM EDT

[#4]

twitter hash tag:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_(metadata)#Hashtags

Posted: 5/11/2011 7:17:16 PM EDT

[#5]

It will always mean an IRC channel to me.