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Hashtags have become a kind of second language on Twitter and beyond. For better or for worse, people use hashtags in all sorts of ways — for emphasis, for association, for trending topics, as shorthand, for humor and so on and so on. But as is the case with most things on the Internet, there are users and there are abusers.
See the list below for five kinds of hashtaggers who are abusing the hashtag. Are you one of them?
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