Facebook working to integrate "hashtags" like the way of Twitter

The news has not been confirmed by the firm but which reveals, once again, for the social network to recover data even more accurate its users.

 It is the Wall Street Journal that started the rumor: Facebook may soon integrate the "hashtags" used on Twitter, these little keywords added to "Articles" Facebook (posts), allowing, by clicking on it, see all "statutes" of other users who have used them. This news has not been confirmed by Facebook: one of its spokesman told Slate, "We do not comment on rumors or speculation. ' 

If this information proved true, could thus allow Facebook users to write their posts with "hash words", thus facilitating their indexing Graph Search. Instagram, which belongs to Facebook already uses these words hash to sort photos. The Wall Street Journal explains that "by incorporating hashtags, Facebook will be able to quickly index the conversations so that they can develop from a subject, as on Twitter. This will give users a reason to stay connected and therefore see more advertising. "

This new feature is obviously a commercial purpose, the company trying with this kind of idea to increase traffic to their site. And also to collect more accurate data on its users and then transmit them to advertisers.