Hashtags can be considered as a human/machine hybrid vocabulary because they are context rich and search engine friendly.
I am exploring a scheme to help human beings to encode/decode context efficiently in tweets with the help of search engine filters.
A first step of this scheme is introducing a #def tag for the definition of a hashtag. When search both tags in http://search.twitter.com , it mostly like shows a definition or list of definitions with high S/N ratio if many people adopt the convention. If not, at least I can build up a personal dictionary this way. Then I can share it with everyone on twitter. For example, this can be a #urlshortener for your blog:
SOCIAL NETWORKS BEWARE: BUENO.COM LAUNCHES ITS TELECOM-RICH SOCIAL NETWORK – YOUR COMPUTER MAY BE THE NEW PHONE AND IT’S FREE. Bueno.com may be the newest entry into the social network scene but it’s got something everyone is talking about – a free USA online phone number and a virtual phone empowering site users to make and receive free calls as long as they have a microphone and speakers. Developers and web gurus are busy at BUENO. While the launch of its beta version of “what’s soon to come”, even though many of the gadgets work, there are several significant features placing what Bueno will be, in a league of its own. We’ll get to the free phone in a minute.
First, of course you get your own email address and in box – send and receive features are pretty standard. You get a very well organized wall with a nice feature – your wall is always present so you can keep up with the activity without having to open and close screens. You can post and receive not only text messages, but voice and video messages as well. Very slick. Want to let your friends know what you’re doing right now – record and send a video post in seconds (but make sure you have a web cam).
If you like what you see so far, BUENO can also automatically import (scrape) your profile and friends information from other networks and email boxes when you’re ready to consolidate your daily business under one community.
Bueno users also get their own photo album page enabling users to import and collect your favorite pix and video galleries where you can store the video messages you want to hold on to. With all of these robust features, the sense is that you can communicate with any of your member friends using text, email, video and now, your own virtual phone, for free, as well as keeping your life in a fairly sane state – let’s not forget the calendar, blog, and chat.
At sign up, you’ll choose a phone number – you’ll now have the ability to call a friend, from your computer, and give them your real BUENO phone number, named “ME”. If your friend happens to be in Mexico or Italy, and you’re in the USA, the call is free. When your friends sign up – you’re all in, chatting, emailing, sending video messages and calling all simultaneously and for free.
Let’s not forget the music library you can load up with your new found favorite artists thanks to BUENO’s legally free search technology.
Bueno.com is a Miami based technology and communications enterprise. Ownership and management have spent thousands of hours collaborating with their team of techies and it is apparent this network really has a grasp on not only what everyone seems to want in a feature rich community, but something very innovative, new, and free. Are you in?
James Ronald
· 6 months ago
Interesting article. For those tired of twitter check out http://www.twibeo.com Twitter limits your posts to 140 characters, but why live under their strict limitations when you could be photos, videos and much more with http://www.twibeo.com
digideth
· 6 months ago
I can't use them. They are thief's!
They stole the Hootsuite.com logo, well the pretty much stole their whole homepage look.
The site looks like a scam to me so I recommend staying far away from them!!
jpostman
· 6 months ago
Hashtags are not "one of the most complex features of Twitter" but are in fact, a workaround for the lack of a sorely needed Twitter feature, namely groups. Other microblogging environments, like Yammer and Presently, and of course FriendFeed, have groups which allow users to categorize their friends' lists.
One of the most powerful uses of groups is for chats. Members of any group, a company, a workgroup, attendees of a conference, or participants in any of the popular Twitter chats could all join a group which would eliminate the need for hashtags.
The # is useful when common English language words are used, but unnecessary when unique, semi-nonsensical strings are used, or for totally unique terms like "iPhone." The whole hashtagging thing is a mess, and confuses the heck out of neophytes and experienced Twitter users alike. Hopefully Twitter will get more actual features (as opposed to removing features) that will eliminate the need for manually inserted hashtags and take away this layer of confusion and waste of characters.
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· 6 months ago
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Like most indexing engines, it looks like Google treats the # as a delimiter and strips it out when adding new entries to its index. So hastags are not available as part of a Google search. That's a shame, especially since they have been around for years.
1. Do a quick search for the Hashtag you want to define (don't include the # in your search). 2. Click 'create this page' (if no page is found) 3. Add your definition as best as you can with loads of information. 4. Promote yourself by adding your Twitter username when you create a new definition.
I like tagalus, too because it is crowd driven. You can vote up or down hashtags.
carlos moreira
· 6 months ago
I allways attach 1 hashtag in all Twitter scripts I write. Helps me keep track of their use by users. the #first and #wastedtime were widely use a couple of weeks ago. Hashtags are one of the great things on twitter.
businessethos
· 6 months ago
Great pointers.
The first I saw a hashtag--it threw me for a loop!
Coretta @businessethos
Sandra D.
· 6 months ago
One does not need the # to do a Twitter search or make a group. Just give your grouping a unique name; i.e. bigartz, cheeznewz, ffrankfishart or whateverq and Twitter will find it.
Jeff Hopeck
· 6 months ago
If you notice someone constantly using the #hashtag in their tweets, how do you proceed? I see some good business people out there constantly selling and making amateur mistakes on Twitter because they aren't up to speed yet with it and don't get what it's really used for..... is it good twitter-practice to politely let them know? Or just unfollow them and forget it? THANKS!
very enlightening! thanks for spreading the knowledge.
Jason Breed
· 6 months ago
Hashtags do help categorize, however not structured enough for businesses. I developed the UnPanel for this reason. The first UnPanel is in it's 7th week using #socialmedia. Can be found at www.hashtagsocialmedia.com and comes with moderator separate from panel input. The posts are databased for archival. Every Tuesday Noon EST.
Adding a bit of structure can change the way companies use Twitter and diffuse some of the c-suite backlash that comes with it. Interested in feedback.
WhatBradDidNext
· 6 months ago
A step towards organising tweet data. A word association service would be cool. Taking a hashtag and branching laterally into related tags to build a broader and more intuitive picture of the subject at hand.
RogerJH
· 6 months ago
Great post. Thanks for sharing. BTW you might be interested in my recent post on deliberate abuse of hashtags. It focuses around how spammers were using hashtags for Trending Topics to seed the topics with their tweets containing irrelevant links.
Help pls. I've tried everything. Read everything and HELP. #hastags. I'm following #hashtags, they're following me. I've entered and reentered my #haida and #haidaart - # and nothing. I keep testing and nothing. I've gone everywhere and tried to enter it and nothing. It doesn't show up anywhere when I use it in my update. I've emailed #hashtag - nothing. I've joined groups, nothing. I've contacted #hastag a few to,es, nothing. How do I get my # to show up - I've searched (in both on Twitter) and nothing. How do I get it to work? I know it's easy but... I've read ur info and nothing yet. tanks so much. Respect.
Jennifer
· 4 months ago
Lori, Because you don't have any linkable data on either of your posts, we cannot tell if you're for real or a spammer. If you're a spammer, there is nothing to be gained by helping you. Link your name to your twitter page, facebook page, or any other page where you actually provide content, plz.
Lori
· 5 months ago
Help pls. I've tried everything. Read everything and HELP. #hastags. I'm following #hashtags, they're following me. I've entered and reentered my #haida and #haidaart - # and nothing. I keep testing and nothing. I've gone everywhere and tried to enter it and nothing. It doesn't show up anywhere when I use it in my update. I've emailed #hashtag - nothing. I've joined groups, nothing. I've contacted #hastag a few to,es, nothing. How do I get my # to show up - I've searched (in both on Twitter) and nothing. How do I get it to work? I know it's easy but... I've read ur info and nothing yet. tanks so much. Respect.
Charles E. Martin
· 5 months ago
I have been confused about the hashtag, since day one. The twitter home page does not describe its use and application. THANKS SO MUCH- For helping a beginner, get a better handle on this feature!
PowerSellingMom
· 3 months ago
Perfect info!
Leaping Woman
· 2 months ago
One more place: On the What The Hashtag? wiki you can define a hashtag and monitor stats (tweets over last 7 days, top contributors) for it. http://wthashtag.com/
Doug Cloud
· 2 months ago
After a bad bout with Feedburner I decided to make some noise and created my own hashtag for the event - #feedburnersucks. Now every post I make complaining about FB will have this new hashtag. Unfortunately, I don't have the Twitter base to "get the most" out of this, but I'm going to do it anyway. One voice crying in the wilderness is better than none, right?
Sam
· 2 months ago
saw a new hash tag #BrnSt on Emotional Brain Training News. I think it means Brain State or a way to describe how stressed you are, 1-Feeling Great, 5-Stressed Out.
Much easier way of explaining how you feel to other people in your network.
ATrussell
· 2 months ago
great information, thanks. still trying to figure this all out and use it effectively for my biz. some great ideas and new places to check on the web. will revisit your site.
All Comments
Great tool for monitoring Hashtags.
Shaun Dakin
@EndTheRoboCalls
@IsCool
I am exploring a scheme to help human beings to encode/decode context efficiently in tweets with the help of search engine filters.
A first step of this scheme is introducing a #def tag for the definition of a hashtag. When search both tags in http://search.twitter.com , it mostly like shows a definition or list of definitions with high S/N ratio if many people adopt the convention. If not, at least I can build up a personal dictionary this way. Then I can share it with everyone on twitter. For example, this can be a #urlshortener for your blog:
#def #mashable http://mashable.com
#drsliu
Bueno.com may be the newest entry into the social network scene but it’s got something everyone is talking about – a free USA online phone number and a virtual phone empowering site users to make and receive free calls as long as they have a microphone and speakers.
Developers and web gurus are busy at BUENO. While the launch of its beta version of “what’s soon to come”, even though many of the gadgets work, there are several significant features placing what Bueno will be, in a league of its own. We’ll get to the free phone in a minute.
First, of course you get your own email address and in box – send and receive features are pretty standard. You get a very well organized wall with a nice feature – your wall is always present so you can keep up with the activity without having to open and close screens. You can post and receive not only text messages, but voice and video messages as well. Very slick. Want to let your friends know what you’re doing right now – record and send a video post in seconds (but make sure you have a web cam).
If you like what you see so far, BUENO can also automatically import (scrape) your profile and friends information from other networks and email boxes when you’re ready to consolidate your daily business under one community.
Bueno users also get their own photo album page enabling users to import and collect your favorite pix and video galleries where you can store the video messages you want to hold on to.
With all of these robust features, the sense is that you can communicate with any of your member friends using text, email, video and now, your own virtual phone, for free, as well as keeping your life in a fairly sane state – let’s not forget the calendar, blog, and chat.
At sign up, you’ll choose a phone number – you’ll now have the ability to call a friend, from your computer, and give them your real BUENO phone number, named “ME”. If your friend happens to be in Mexico or Italy, and you’re in the USA, the call is free. When your friends sign up – you’re all in, chatting, emailing, sending video messages and calling all simultaneously and for free.
Let’s not forget the music library you can load up with your new found favorite artists thanks to BUENO’s legally free search technology.
Bueno.com is a Miami based technology and communications enterprise. Ownership and management have spent thousands of hours collaborating with their team of techies and it is apparent this network really has a grasp on not only what everyone seems to want in a feature rich community, but something very innovative, new, and free. Are you in?
They stole the Hootsuite.com logo, well the pretty much stole their whole homepage look.
The site looks like a scam to me so I recommend staying far away from them!!
One of the most powerful uses of groups is for chats. Members of any group, a company, a workgroup, attendees of a conference, or participants in any of the popular Twitter chats could all join a group which would eliminate the need for hashtags.
The # is useful when common English language words are used, but unnecessary when unique, semi-nonsensical strings are used, or for totally unique terms like "iPhone." The whole hashtagging thing is a mess, and confuses the heck out of neophytes and experienced Twitter users alike. Hopefully Twitter will get more actual features (as opposed to removing features) that will eliminate the need for manually inserted hashtags and take away this layer of confusion and waste of characters.
#marketing site:twitter.com
These also fail to find tweets with # used:
"#marketing" site:twitter.com
+#marketing site:twitter.com
Like most indexing engines, it looks like Google treats the # as a delimiter and strips it out when adding new entries to its index. So hastags are not available as part of a Google search. That's a shame, especially since they have been around for years.
It's wiki-style.
You can:
1. Do a quick search for the Hashtag you want to define (don't include the # in your search).
2. Click 'create this page' (if no page is found)
3. Add your definition as best as you can with loads of information.
4. Promote yourself by adding your Twitter username when you create a new definition.
I like tagalus, too because it is crowd driven. You can vote up or down hashtags.
Hashtags are one of the great things on twitter.
The first I saw a hashtag--it threw me for a loop!
Coretta
@businessethos
Adding a bit of structure can change the way companies use Twitter and diffuse some of the c-suite backlash that comes with it. Interested in feedback.
http://www.twitterthoughts.com/social-media-new...
Because you don't have any linkable data on either of your posts, we cannot tell if you're for real or a spammer. If you're a spammer, there is nothing to be gained by helping you.
Link your name to your twitter page, facebook page, or any other page where you actually provide content, plz.
Much easier way of explaining how you feel to other people in your network.