http://zethrae.us/blog/2009/a-note-on-twitter-hashtags/ using technology to facilitate awesome. Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:09:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://zethrae.us/blog/2009/a-note-on-twitter-hashtags/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Carly Franklin Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:11:36 +0000 http://zethrae.us/blog/?p=96#comment-33 <p>I think you have a good point. Like anything, there are legitimate and non legitimate uses for hashtags. I can understand someone not wanting you to tag every word in a tweet or use tags that are irrelevant to the tweet's content. However, I personally like the idea of hash tags making it easier to target a particular audience, even if the content of the tweet is more "headline" like than a bunch of keywords. Obviously, it's obnoxious if someone is tagging tweets with words that are popular trending topics just to get the tweets picked up, but I feel it's legitimate to use them to "categorize" the content if keywords are not present in the tweet itself.</p> I think you have a good point. Like anything, there are legitimate and non legitimate uses for hashtags. I can understand someone not wanting you to tag every word in a tweet or use tags that are irrelevant to the tweet’s content. However, I personally like the idea of hash tags making it easier to target a particular audience, even if the content of the tweet is more “headline” like than a bunch of keywords. Obviously, it’s obnoxious if someone is tagging tweets with words that are popular trending topics just to get the tweets picked up, but I feel it’s legitimate to use them to “categorize” the content if keywords are not present in the tweet itself.

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