What is a #hashtag?
A user-created standard for identifying tweets belonging to a topic. Simply include the tag in your tweet and other people searching for the same tag will be able to find it. Below are the most popular Canadian political hashtags.
| tag |
name |
description |
pop |
last used |
| #ndp | NDP | New Democratic Party of Canada discussion, mostly federal but also used by provincial NDP'ers | 2055 | Aug 09, 2009 1:52 am |
| #ndpldr | NDP Leadership Convention 2012 | | 29 | Apr 02, 2012 1:59 am |
| #layton | Jack Layton | tweets about the new democrats leader | 1 | Oct 10, 2010 12:30 pm |
| #ptndp | Canadian New Democrats | | 1 | Jan 02, 2012 6:48 am |
* you can click the table headings to sort the table
* popularity is tracked by politwitter counting how many times the hash tag is used in the last month
Archived Hashtags
| tag |
name |
description |
| #hfx09 | New Democrat Federal Convention | NDP 2009 Convention in Halifax |
| #AskLayton | Jack Layton Town Hall | Jack Layton nation-wide town hall in Toronto during 2011 federal election |
