Although you have probably read it and not believed it, Twitter is an excellent networking tool. In fact, that is probably its strongest virtue–the ability for generally unrelated people to connect about certain topics or events. The way Twitter makes those connections possible is through hashtags or #s. By simply putting a # followed by a word, for example #NBAfinals, everyone who is looking for tweets on that topic can easily find them. The best part is that nowadays, you don’t even have to use a hashtag as you can search for words, but hashtags are still commonly used for their convenience. By way of another example, if you attend the State Bar of Nevada 2013 Annual Meeting at Lake Tahoe next month, you might see the #nvbar, encouraging users to use that in their tweets so that other attendees can easily find tweets relating to the meeting.