Searching and Hashtags on Twitter
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Twitter does have search available since they bought the site Summarize. To access the Twitter Search, go here . The page allows you to search by topic, and has a list of the current trends at the bottom.
Someone figured out that if you put the # in front of a term, people could find it quickly here. Voila! The hashtag was born. (The term may have originated from somewhere else, I’ll look into that.)
So, when a number of people are at a conference, such as BlogWorld Expo, they try to agree on a single tag and then place it somewhere in their tweets, like this #BWE08. This allows others to find their comments under one search instead of having to do variations on the name of the conference.
Some people have gotten a tad crazy with hashtags (IMHO), tagging everything they think is useful for others. A number of people have put together online parties by using the hashtag so that others can see who is online without following them. Warren Whitlock put such a party together over New Year’s Eve by using the tag, #Happy09.
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It’s so interesting to tweet at an event and see the topic start to trend as a top ten topic because so many people are tweeting about the same thing. I especially enjoyed using hashtags at Blogworld in certain sessions where a particular class discussion would take a top ten position. Additionally, hashtags have served great purpose at Maria Shriver’s Women’s Conference, during Hack the Debate and Motrin Moms. It’s also fun to create hashtags for events when none have been developed. I’ve done that on several occasions. I bet this is one thing we’ll see change or even go away during 2009 as Twitter matures. What do you think Anita?
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Posted on: January 4th, 2009 at 1:18 pm@aaswartz
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Actually, I think hashtags will continue as they are very useful.
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