Whether you’re a shop owner intent on driving traffic to your online listings, an interior designer looking to land new clients, or just a lifelong learner interested in architecture, industrial design, and the like, if you’re using Twitter to give and get information, it’s easy to get stuck in a rut when you’re following the same people and seeing the same kinds of conversations Tweeted day in and day out.

There are websites that suggest new people to follow based on your social circles, and Twitter has even introduced this feature to their own interface recently. But what about searching out and following conversations based on popular hashtags related to your design interests? I did this recently and found a bunch of interesting conversations taking place with users far outside my current web, and it allowed me to discover content, blogs, and links that I hadn’t yet known existed.

Here we suggest a handful of design, fashion, vintage, and decor hashtags to search out and follow on Twitter if you want to break out of your social media rut: