http://alex.mullr.net/blog/2009/03/the-etiquette-of-hashtagging/ Hi. I'm a student at the University of York, in the Computer Science and Maths departments. I recently finished working at GlaxoSmithKline in London. And this is my blog. Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:58:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://alex.mullr.net/blog/2009/03/the-etiquette-of-hashtagging/#comment-6246 Carly Franklin Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:12:44 +0000 http://alex.mullr.net/blog/?p=348#comment-6246 <p>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> 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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