Comments on: What do you know about using hashtags in Twitter?

By: John Dilbeck

John Dilbeck — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:53:25 +0000

Good morning, Mitch.

At first, I was really confused by hashtags on Twitter, but now they seem easy to use.

I don’t use many and mostly I’m using the #MurphyNC hashtag to make centralized places for following the discussions about my adopted home town.

I still haven’t seen anyone else use it, but I am starting to find others who use Twitter around here.

It’s going to be interesting to see how it develops over time.

It’s always good to hear from you.

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By: Mitch

Mitch — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:39:07 +0000

Yeah, I'm late to this discussion, but only because I just started using a couple of hashtags because I had no idea how to use them before. Actually, I must have missed this back when it was new, or else I wasn't using TweetDeck yet, because now that I've learned how to follow some folks with it, I've set up one specifically, for central New York; I still may do Syracuse, but right now it gets way too many posts, oddly enough. Mitch´s last blog post..I’ll Write Articles For You; For A Price

By: John Dilbeck

John Dilbeck — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:23:50 +0000

Good morning, Sheryl.

Those are some good suggestions.

I don’t have a lot of experience in using rooms on FriendFeed, but I followed your suggestion and created a new room for Murphy NC 28906 and added the RSS feed for the Twitter search, one of my blogs, and a community I’m (re)starting on Ning.com.

There are a couple of other RSS feeds I’ll add, later.

I wanted to get this up and working while I was thinking about it. Creating the room and adding the feeds was extremely easy.

This also has the advantage of creating a merged RSS feed that I can syndicate on other sites.

Thank you.

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By: Sheryl Loch

Sheryl Loch — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:23:53 +0000

Ok, I have another Idea you might think about.

Go to Search.Twitter.com
Click Advanced Search
List exact words, hash tags….
Then do your search.

Now you can pick up the RSS feed from that search and direct it to a FriendFeed Room you set up for people from Murphy, NC. I would use the city and state in the room name.

With a FriendFeed room you can then bring in all the search results from Twitter (via RSS) for that term - invite those people to join your room or just follow them on Twitter.

The advantage of a FF Room is you can also list links to articles of area events, news stories (Even a RSS feed from a local news paper). It also lets you have a place for all members to leave comments & be more chatty than Twitter.

People could visit a FFRoom and catch up on people and things easier than if you missed a day of logging into twitter.

Since you have done all the searching and linking of RSS Feeds they just need to Join FriendFeed, stop in, join the group, and chat.

Wow, I am just full of ideas today. To bad it does not happen often. LOL!

Ok, I am off again,
Sheryl

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By: John Dilbeck

John Dilbeck — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:32:37 +0000

Good morning, Sheryl.

Thanks for your observations.

I still have not decided the best way to deal with this, but I’m going to set up my primary blog for Murphy so that it will automatically use the #MurphyNC hashtag when tweeting a new blog post.

I’ve also created a Twitter Group for Murphy NC that uses the #murphync hashtag.

I still need to do some research about how the searches differentiate between #MurphyNC and #murphync.

Hopefully, I’ll find a tool that makes it easy to find and syndicate tweets with either of these tags.

Tweetdeck would probably be a good thing to try for just myself, but I’m looking for a tool that I can set up and others can use without knowing all the background.

Still searching.

I appreciate your comment.

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By: Sheryl Loch

Sheryl Loch — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:33:35 +0000

John, Not sure if you have solved this yet. I use TweetDeck and my best results come when I do a search there for the # or I put "keyword" adding the "'s seems to work better on Tweetdeck, not so sure about the regular search though. It's just a thought, Sheryl Sheryl Loch´s last blog post..Blog Co-Op at The Internet Marketers Guild