Yahoo above the weekend updated its Flickr for iOS application with hashtag sustain. Users can now add a hashtag to a photo's title or clarification, and also run a search to find all photos tagged with that term. The adding comes amidst rumors that Facebook is preparation to add hashtag support to its own social network.
The hashtag one or more words strung together with no spaces after a pound sign gained in reputation in 2009, when Twitter began hyperlinking them to search results. Hashtags, which are often used to illuminate or add circumstance to a post (i.e. #sarcasm, #Samsung, #iPhone), have extensive outside Twitter to sites like Google+ and even Facebook-owned Instagram.
To celebrate it’s sustained for hashtags, Flickr launched a new weekly photo dispute called #FlickrFriday that will enable mobile photographers to get some disrepute for their shots. The photo-based social network will issue a new weekly argument every Friday, and then users will have all weekend to take a photo based on the premise and tag it with #FlickrFriday.
