{"id":3877,"date":"2014-12-02T14:22:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T12:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gr-01.de\/www-whitepapers.grafik-und-redaktion.de\/?p=3877"},"modified":"2014-12-02T14:22:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T12:22:06","slug":"throwback-thursday-definition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whitepapers.grafik-und-redaktion.de\/?p=3877","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday Definition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"expert-content-text\">\n<div class=\"firstBlock\">\n<p><strong>Definition: <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Throwback Thursday<\/em> is the name of a weekly social media posting theme that users participate in as part of a very general &#8222;throwback&#8220; activity for posting content. In this case, the &#8222;throwback&#8220; theme can pertain to\u00a0basically anything that happened in the past.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursdays, anyone can participate in the Throwback Thursday trend by\u00a0posting content (usually a photo)\u00a0on social networking sites like <a href=\"http:\/\/webtrends.about.com\/od\/socialnetworkingreviews\/tp\/Social-Networking-Sites.htm\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr or Facebook<\/a> to remember a past\u00a0event. Photos can be from years ago or from just a few days ago. There aren&#8217;t really any limitations, and even though it can be fun to participate, it really just gives people an excuse to post more.<\/p>\n<p>Throwback Thursday is very popular on <a href=\"http:\/\/webtrends.about.com\/od\/Instagram\/a\/Instagram-Filters.htm\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\">Instagram<\/a>, and users often tag their photos with a variety of hashtags like #TBT, #ThrowbackThursday or just simply #Throwback. Adding these hashtags can help get photos more exposure from a wider audience of people who are searching through those tags.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, a lot of users on Instagram take advantage of the popular #TBT hashtags and fill them with spam or unrelated content in hopes of gaining more likes and followers. Just go ahead and search through the content posted in the #TBT or #ThrowbackThursday hashtags on Instagram and you&#8217;ll be bound to stumble across tons\u00a0posts that have nothing to do with the theme.<\/p>\n<p>The trend is quickly catching on to other social networks too &#8212; especially ones that use hashtag functionality &#8212;\u00a0like Twitter and <a href=\"http:\/\/webtrends.about.com\/od\/Facebook\/f\/Do-Hashtags-Work-On-Facebook.htm\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"3\">Facebook<\/a>. Businesses and brands have also begun using it as part of their social media marketing and community building strategies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why Is Throwback Thursday So Popular?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People love the feeling of nostalgia. That&#8217;s really all there is to it.<\/p>\n<p>Social media is used for sharing our lives often as it&#8217;s happening, but we&#8217;ll take any excuse to reminisce about the old days and the good feelings that come with it. A strong emotional response acts as\u00a0a catalyst for social sharing, so it makes sense that your most beloved\u00a0memories of the past are among the things you love to share the most &#8212; even if it only matters to you, and nobody else.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What to Post on\u00a0Throwback Thursday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to be a social media superstar or have thousands of <a href=\"http:\/\/webtrends.about.com\/od\/Instagram\/a\/Get-More-Instagram-Followers.htm\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"4\">followers<\/a> to get in on this trend. All you need to do find something about the past to post about, and tag with #ThrowbackThursday, #Throwback or #TBT.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Old photos of you from your childhood.\u00a0<\/strong>This is a big trend\u00a0and it&#8217;s something that everyone can do. If you&#8217;re an adult, you probably have at least a few fond memories of being a kid, so post an old photo that brings back some good memories and tag it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>An old song that takes you back in time.<\/strong> Photos are the most popular content to share for this trend, but songs are not far behind. People love to share songs from decades ago that evoke a strong sense of nostalgia. Post a <a href=\"http:\/\/webtrends.about.com\/od\/Snapchat\/a\/Snapchat-Screenshots.htm\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"5\">screenshot<\/a> of what you&#8217;re listening to\u00a0or just simply share the link to the song itself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Screenshots of old Facebook status updates or tweets.<\/strong> Here&#8217;s a new one. Social media has been around long enough that we can now look back on some of crazy things we used to post online all those years ago. <a href=\"http:\/\/webtrends.about.com\/od\/socialnetworkingreviews\/gr\/One-Year-Ago-On-Social-Media-Timehop.htm\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"6\">Timehop<\/a> is a great tool for checking out what you posted a year ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Throwback Thursday Continued: Flashback Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Social media users apparently love this trend so much and can&#8217;t get enough of it once a week that they decided to extend it into Friday. Flashback Friday is the equivalent of Throwback Thursday &#8212; but meant to be posted on with the accompanying\u00a0#FlasbackFriday (or #FBF) hashtag on Fridays.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Weekday Hashtag Games for Every Day of the Week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not, there&#8217;s a hashtag theme trend just like #TBT for every day of the week. Although they&#8217;re not quite as popular, they still give you a great excuse to find more content ideas and post way more often.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webtrends.about.com\/od\/Instagram\/fl\/Instagram-Weekday-Hashtags.htm\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"7\">Check out this weekday Instagram hashtag\u00a0article<\/a> to find out what hashtag themes you can play around with from Monday to Friday, and even on weekends.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definition: Throwback Thursday is the name of a weekly social media posting theme that users participate in as part of a very general &#8222;throwback&#8220; activity for posting content. In this case, the &#8222;throwback&#8220; theme can pertain to\u00a0basically anything that happened &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whitepapers.grafik-und-redaktion.de\/?p=3877\">Weiterlesen &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitepapers.grafik-und-redaktion.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitepapers.grafik-und-redaktion.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitepapers.grafik-und-redaktion.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitepapers.grafik-und-redaktion.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitepapers.grafik-und-redaktion.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whitepapers.grafik-und-redaktion.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3878,"href":"https:\/\/whitepapers.grafik-und-redaktion.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions\/3878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitepapers.grafik-und-redaktion.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitepapers.grafik-und-redaktion.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitepapers.grafik-und-redaktion.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}