Hashtag For July | #AmericanFlowersMonth

For American Grown Flowers Month lets all use the Hashtag: #AmericanFlowersMonth

This is a great opportunity to build and track our social media engagement.

To warm your brain up, here are some stats from 2017. (Data Never Sleeps)

EVERY MINUTE:
•    Pinterest users pin 9,722 images
•    Twitter users send 347,222 tweets
•    Instagram users like 1,736,111 photos
•    Facebook users like 4,166,667 posts

…Yes, every minute, of every day.  Oy Vey, how are we going to keep up with the stuff, like flowers, that we are actually interested in?

Easy! Hashtags! Many folks still wonder exactly what a hashtag is. Here is a pretty down to earth definition, from Techterms.com

A hashtag is a number symbol (#) used to label keywords in a social media post. The name "hashtag" was coined by Twitter and combines the word "hash" (another name for the number symbol) and "tag," since it is used to tag certain words. In order to tag a keyword in a social media post, simply type a number symbol immediately before the word. For example, you can tag the word "tech" in a tweet by typing "#tech."

Twitter and other social media platforms automatically turn hashtagged words into links to a dynamic feed. This feed is updated in real-time and lists all recent posts containing the same hashtag. When you post with a hashtag, your post will show up in the public feed. Besides clicking on hashtags within social media posts, you can also search for hashtags using Twitter, Instagram or even Google. 

Hashtags are used to categorize social posts, since all posts with the same hashtag are related. Therefore, searching for hashtags is a good way to monitor hot topics or trends. For example, #marchmadness is popular during the March NCAA tournament, while #election might be popular during political elections. Company names, such as #apple and #microsoft, are common hashtagged terms and may be used when people comment on new product releases. As people post with the same hashtag, the corresponding feed can easily turn into a discussion. 

A hashtag can be any word or combination or words and can also include numbers. You can use trending hashtags in your tweets or make up your own. However, it is best to use popular hashtags if you want others to see your post. Each post can include multiple hashtags. It is common to include hashtags at the end of a tweet, but you can hashtag any word by simply adding a number symbol in front of it.

A great example of widely used hashtag is #Ihavethisthingwithfloors. This hashtag is used by floor enthusiast (who knew?) and the trend has evolved to where people take a picture straight down with their shoes in the picture and then share.  (Yes, I think these folks have a thing for shoes as well!)

Search this hashtag on Google, Pintrest, Twitter, Facebook or Instagram and prepare to see a ton of very cool floors.

We couldn’t help ourselves, we had to do our own iris interpretation.

So, if flower farmers, retailers, wholesalers and florists all hop onboard and use #AmericanFlowersMonth for the whole month of July, we will have a great searchable conversation, all about American Grown flowers!

Thank you for your help!