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The problem with this I feel and one of the advantages of Twitter is that if a certain company controls their community page (e.g. Audi USA) and I go to post some sort of customer service complaint, they have the option of removing it. With Twitter, I can just add a hashtag or @message them and it'd be visible globally with search.



Google+ also has hashtags, e.g... https://plus.google.com/s/%23ThorsDay/posts

And apparently you can search for anything and you'll get a realtime stream: https://plus.google.com/s/Santa%20Claus/posts


You can still make a public post not in the group with +Audi or #Audi and it will function the same way Twitter does.


Good to know. I'm not a heavy G+ user so thanks for the explanation.


wait, so what prevents you from +mentioning someone or #tagging a post in G+? Communities are completely independent and orthogonal to those already existing features




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