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Why Twitter Should Buy Hashtags
- pclark 18y agoI don't get hashtags, surely Twitter Trends is hashtags ... without the hash?
- silencio 18y agoPretty much yeah, as well as twitter search (without having to opt-in, which I believe hashtags.org still requires). But the author's main point seemed to be that hashtags are a solution for easily filtering and tagging tweets appropriately. For example, I was at macworld last week and while I didn't hashtag any tweets, it would be a lot easier for people to filter if I did tag them with something like #mwsf09, instead of tweeting something related without actually mentioning "mwsf" or "macworld" in the tweet, forcing them to deal with the subsequent issues (i.e. not being able to filter them out or vice versa, not being able to search for it easily...). (Not that I necessarily want to see twitter-side filtering and grouping and permissions, I don't know that I want to given that I love the simplicity of twitter as-is unless twitter can implement it unobtrusively.)
- diN0bot 18y agoi think the idea is to have a hashtag for #family versus #work, and then only invite your family to receive your #family "feed" as it were, while anyone could follow your #work messages. the point is that you wouldn't mention #family naturally in a message intended for family (eg, "rex loves new collar. thx mom."). the hash (#) is simply a convention for unnatural categorization. am i misunderstanding trends parsing?
- axod 18y agoWhy would they buy it, instead of implementing the feature themselves?
- ivey 18y agoNo one will do this. Twitter works because it is a low-impact way to communicate. If I have to think (Gee, this is about #rspec and #ruby and is kinda fun but not #fun...) then I'm no longer using Twitter I'm doing work.