It's ugly, it's overused, and it's almost worthless as a search tool. That about sums up Daniel Victor's objections to the Twitter hashtag in this Nieman Journalism Lab post. Then why do we use it? Because we're told to, Victor writes: "Shaking a Polaroid picture didn’t make it develop any faster. Blowing on Nintendo cartridges didn’t help, either. We’ve all been told at some point that hashtags connect you to more people, and it’s been widely accepted as fact."
