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The stupid and honest truth about using hashtags
Nobody is scrolling the Monday motivation hashtag looking for some Monday motivation.
▶Play the video: The stupid and honest truth about using hashtagsYou write your Monday motivation post and put it out on Monday, like a good little boy. Then on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday it’s still going round the algorithm. So somebody sees your Monday motivation on Wisdom Wednesday, and you look like an idiot.
And there’s no practical advantage to adding the hashtag anyway. The post makes the same sense with or without it. People aren’t scrolling the Monday motivation hashtag thinking “I really need some Monday motivation today”. Nobody’s doing that.
So there’s no practical reason to do it and no tactical reason to do it. The hashtag doesn’t get you found and it doesn’t make the post any better. It just dates it.
Stop doing it. Spend the effort on saying something worth reading instead.
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