This was originally published on socialfish.org and is excerpted here with permission.
Twitter has been one of the major hubs of social networking, revolutionizing what was already a new and adapting Internet invention. The live nature of the website has provided unlimited potential for personal and commercial use alike.
Of all of the features on Twitter, hashtags are perhaps the most useful. They give you a way of searching for topics, conversations and people, or to keep up on news as it is being reported. This is the benefit of their live search options, which make Twitter unique to other websites.