Comments on: The Epic Battle for Twitter: The At versus the Hash http://www.scottporad.com/2009/03/29/at-vs-hash/ Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:00:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: What is HDTV? | The Best HDTV http://www.scottporad.com/2009/03/29/at-vs-hash/comment-page-1/#comment-472 What is HDTV? | The Best HDTV Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:11:56 +0000 http://scottporad.com/?p=95#comment-472 [...] The Epic Battle for Twitter: The At versus the Hash at Scott Porad [...] [...] The Epic Battle for Twitter: The At versus the Hash at Scott Porad [...]

]]> By: How to Get More Followers on Twitter? « Scott Porad http://www.scottporad.com/2009/03/29/at-vs-hash/comment-page-1/#comment-24 How to Get More Followers on Twitter? « Scott Porad Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:09:16 +0000 http://scottporad.com/?p=95#comment-24 [...] a two-way conversation.  To simply get up there on this new soapbox called Twitter and start broadcasting is counter-intuitive to [...] [...] a two-way conversation.  To simply get up there on this new soapbox called Twitter and start broadcasting is counter-intuitive to [...]

]]> By: Evan Jacobs http://www.scottporad.com/2009/03/29/at-vs-hash/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Evan Jacobs Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:01:00 +0000 http://scottporad.com/?p=95#comment-23 I can't help but think that the # has had a bit too much importance placed on it and as a result it is often misused (or overused). The primary reason to use a hash tag is to provide additional context for a post. The reason that a user would want to provide that context is so that people who aren't following him directly will have a better chance of finding his post with that additional context. For example, this # is unnecessary: "played a round of golf today #golf" but this # adds important context: "played 18 today #golf" I also think that # has great potential to ruin Twitter. For example, I tried to follow developments at #140tc by searching for posts with that hash tag but I soon found that the stream was overrun by spammers. I found that a much better strategy was to pick through those initial search results to find a set of people who were posting valuable information for that tag and to follow those people directly. I can’t help but think that the # has had a bit too much importance placed on it and as a result it is often misused (or overused). The primary reason to use a hash tag is to provide additional context for a post. The reason that a user would want to provide that context is so that people who aren’t following him directly will have a better chance of finding his post with that additional context.

For example, this # is unnecessary:

“played a round of golf today #golf”

but this # adds important context:

“played 18 today #golf”

I also think that # has great potential to ruin Twitter. For example, I tried to follow developments at #140tc by searching for posts with that hash tag but I soon found that the stream was overrun by spammers. I found that a much better strategy was to pick through those initial search results to find a set of people who were posting valuable information for that tag and to follow those people directly.

]]> By: The Dilemma of #followfriday « Scott Porad http://www.scottporad.com/2009/03/29/at-vs-hash/comment-page-1/#comment-22 The Dilemma of #followfriday « Scott Porad Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:56:00 +0000 http://scottporad.com/?p=95#comment-22 [...] Contact Info The Epic Battle for Twitter: The At versus the Hash [...] [...] Contact Info The Epic Battle for Twitter: The At versus the Hash [...]

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