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.. what's up with the hashtag comments after a FB post?

I thought hashtags are for Twitter groups. Does FB link your post to Twitter if you add the hashtag at the end? #confused #fbwtf #outofdate

I think there are ways to link your twitter account to your fb.

there are also apps that allow you to post one post but it'll push to both your twitter and fb (and even linkedin or foursquare or instagram and every other social media garbage medium) accounts. So people usually just used those apps to post these days if they wanna post to multiple mediums but only post once.

the hashtag was originally to make keywords for twitter, so if you were trying to find something it'd be in the hashtag. then for hipster's sake, the hashtag just turned into a way of highlighting your point without so many words.

but there are a LOT of different ways to hook up your twitter, linked in and facebook. i don't know about ios, but blackberry and win8 have a "social media app" (whatever they may call it) that allows you to make one post and it's on everything (including your bbm status lol) and consolidates all your contacts and notifications and stuff like that. so if you like to read your fb newsfeed but also want to read your twitter updates, you do it all from within this one app (that's reserved for social media stuff, so it doesn't get mixed up with your texts, im's and/or emails).

There's an app for that... I checked. Several apps, actually.

the bb one (not sure about bb10) and win8 are native apps though. not sure if that's a good thing or bad thing, but it's there on the phone out of the box.

however, the bad thing about that is twitter only gives you 140 characters (that includes spaces), but facebook gives you over 200. it's hard to update your status with that in mind sometimes.

i think the apps that let you post to multiple social media outlets will check for min char counts depending on what medium you're trying to post to

yeah they do, but i'm just saying that sometimes you'd want to post something, but don't care if it's on twitter or not.
i don't personally use my twitter account much, but when i was using my win8 phone it would post in both, and when i broke 140 characters a pop up would say that it cannot be posted on twitter. there was no "i don't care" setting.

i think that was the point of twitter though. 140 chars was meant to keep updates short and sweet. twitter wanted to be quick and easy updates, and not long winded crap.