Comments on: On Twitter http://preshit.net/on-twitter/ Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:05:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Goobi http://preshit.net/on-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-20608 Goobi Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:49:37 +0000 http://preshit.net/?p=584#comment-20608 @Santosh: There's hashtag use, and hashtag abuse. The best use of hashtags, is events. Your crappy wpp event, sxsw, the KKK meetups, they all justify the use of hashtags. However, as Preshit has rightly pointed out, using anything generic like #iPhone or #mac is totally pointless, and gets in the way of reading tweets. Oh, and how on earth do you assume that this is about the #wpp event? @Santosh: There’s hashtag use, and hashtag abuse.

The best use of hashtags, is events. Your crappy wpp event, sxsw, the KKK meetups, they all justify the use of hashtags.

However, as Preshit has rightly pointed out, using anything generic like #iPhone or #mac is totally pointless, and gets in the way of reading tweets.

Oh, and how on earth do you assume that this is about the #wpp event?

]]> By: Santosh http://preshit.net/on-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-20605 Santosh Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:36:22 +0000 http://preshit.net/?p=584#comment-20605 Nice obsolete rant. IMO, I think this is WRT the #wpp trend that was started yesterday where: 1) YOU were left out; 2) got annoyed of RT of a RT of a RTs (OK, that IS annoying. Agreed.); 3) couldn't figure out for what people reply to you for; and 4) wrong hashtag controversies, annoying hashtags. NOW, 1) Your fault. 2) ANNOYING. No arguments. 3) User1: Hey, I bought a new phone. user2: Congrats. User1: FOr what? tweet: I was in my pajama and talking about my sex life #wpp. -- Now, without using the hastag #wpp, would I have been able to find out if that tweet belonged to the WPP conversation? NO, right? Nice obsolete rant.

IMO, I think this is WRT the #wpp trend that was started yesterday where: 1) YOU were left out; 2) got annoyed of RT of a RT of a RTs (OK, that IS annoying. Agreed.); 3) couldn’t figure out for what people reply to you for; and 4) wrong hashtag controversies, annoying hashtags.

NOW,

1) Your fault.

2) ANNOYING. No arguments.

3) User1: Hey, I bought a new phone. user2: Congrats. User1: FOr what? tweet: I was in my pajama and talking about my sex life #wpp. — Now, without using the hastag #wpp, would I have been able to find out if that tweet belonged to the WPP conversation? NO, right?

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