Comments on: Why I Unfollow People Who Use Hashtags On Twitter

By: Penny Butler

Penny Butler — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:47:02 +0000

Coming late into the discussion but just found your blog today – great stuff :)
Anyway, although I hardly use them at all, I also don’t mind hashtags in moderation, it makes it easier to track and search on a particular topic that you are following, and find others who I may not be following but that are tweeting interesting things about something I find interesting.

I do find it annoying when people find ways of using their entire sentences using multiple hashtags or are trying to use it in ways that just try and get their tweet more exposure but has little to do with the subject or has no benefit to those following that particular hashtag except providing extra unnecessary ‘noise’.

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By: Martien de Jong

Martien de Jong — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:12:57 +0000

So, in addtition to the hash tags, would you like the ‘@’ removed too?
Come on, there are better ways to get around this.
Take a look at my exampe: http://martiendejong/t++

It completely removes the hash tags and @ from the messages, but it uses them to filter content.

It is still in beta, but tell me what you think (if you can get over the fact that I am using hashtags, ofcourse)

By: DBL

DBL — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:49:24 +0000

In oral conversation, punctuation was ‘invisible metadata’. Now it is explicit. The same thing is happening with hashtags. Today’s weird mark that looks unsightly is tomorrow’s expected mark that looks perfectly normal.

Eventually people will be writing hashmarks where they don’t need to, just to mark out concepts as ‘conceptual’ — and out of force of habit. Kind of the way people. Have. Started. Using. Periods. For. Emphasis!

Adapt or die.

P.S. You are not a curmudgeon actually, you are a pedant.

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Mon, 25 May 2009 18:06:18 +0000

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Yes, Twitter Hashtags Are Useful | CandisLynn — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:03:27 +0000

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By: mrrealtime

mrrealtime — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:03:15 +0000

why stop at hashtags? I’m sick of people wrecking the already hobbled elegance of the english language with “LOL”, “@whatever”,” ftw”, et cetera, and 140 character limits. Being succinct is one thing, but the way us programmers have been able to infiltrate the english language on the web is increasingly degrading the visual asthetic of our language and culture. I would like to see a revival of victorian prose, personally, and get away from using inhumanly small devices as we record our permanent legacy on this digital medium.

By: Michelle Pendergrass

Michelle Pendergrass — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 03:36:45 +0000

I don’t like them at all. Thanks for the post!

By: Daniel Johnson, Jr.

Daniel Johnson, Jr. — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 03:30:37 +0000

I wonder if you still feel the same way, now that a year has passed and Twitter and the tools for using it have evolved.