# A use case for hashtags

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-use-case-for-hashtags/125505
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [August 12, 2019, 6:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-use-case-for-hashtags/125505 "2019-08-12T06:58:16Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2019, 3:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-use-case-for-hashtags/125505/6 "2019-08-13T03:49:54Z")

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I understand the request and it has popped up previously in many incarnations this is the most recent one:

[https://meta.discourse.org/t/trigger-search-onclick-hashtags/75666](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trigger-search-onclick-hashtags/75666)

I recall a topic from 2013 but can not find it.

The idea is that user a write `#banana` in a topic and just like Twitter, it magically turns into a link and anyone can click `#banana` to find all posts with `#banana`.

The problem you will face here is that `#` is already taken so you will need another key or fallback logic… maybe `##` or something. Other problem is that this twitter like feature would require lots of internal bookkeeping for trending hashtags and discovery and so on.

I don’t see this feature landing in Discourse but someone from the community could experiment with a plugin if they want to. That said I could only imagine very very specific forum where this feature would even be used.

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