Welcome to FTW Explains: a guide to catching up on and better understanding stuff going on in the world. This week we saw massive protests across the country in the wake of the killing of George Floyd ...

Recently spotted by The Wall Street Journal, Twitter is experimenting with a new way to explain some hashtags. Images show Twitter for iOS defining certain hashtags in search in an obvious attempt to ...

File this under “things we didn’t really need in the first place”: Twitter appears to be testing a new feature that will make hashtags a little easier to understand. Some labels also ask users to rate ...

Instagram will now allow only five hashtags instead of 30, urging creators to focus on relevance over quantity as generic ...

Instagram limits hashtags to five per post to reduce spam, boost engagement, and encourage content that truly connects with ...

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Don’t know what tbt or oitnb mean on Twitter? The online social media service is now trying to help explain through a new trial feature. Searches for these clusters of letters following a symbol — ...

One day in late November, the city of Cedar Rapids trended on Twitter. Nothing of obvious note was happening in the Iowa county seat—it wasn’t playing host to insurgent political instability, or ...

Instagram allows you to view the top posts and most recent posts of a hashtag. You can also follow hashtags to get the top posts in your news feed. Screenshot from Instagram, August 2021 If you want ...

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The limit of five hashtags comes after a year of testing, during which some users were allowed only three tags.

Instagram introduces a five-hashtag cap per post and reel to reduce spam and improve content discovery. Tips for effective hashtag use included.