_Actual_ Twitter format for hashtags? Not your regex, not his code— the actual one?

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Update: Use Twitter\'s Entities if you can- they figured it out for you as well as other items. My case is that I just have the tweet without entities and all the extra metadat

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I found this : "Need help parsing tweet text?", on dev.twitter.com

Take a look on the Twitter text processing library we’re using for auto linking and extraction of usernames, lists & hashtags.

(there's ruby, java and javascript librairies)

They are quite enormous, as twitter must take into account every possible case.