February 2011
4 posts
#Mubarak > #icantdateyou →
A few highlights from the article
Hashtags — the community-driven shorthand used to identify conversation themes — like “icantdateyou” and “worstpickuplines” were vastly more popular a few days ago than ones like “Egyptians” or “jan25,” a reference to Day 1 of the Egyptian protests. In just one hour last Tuesday, “icantdateyou” racked up nearly 274,000 mentions on Twitter, with posts like...
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we're back
sorry to our four readers out there.
we have been gone four over four months, but we are finally back.
we will be launching within the next month.
November 2010
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hashtagd redesign - part. 1 →
The first part of our redesign is live. Part. 2 coming soon.
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Twitter Co-Founders To Appear On ‘Late Night With... →
I wonder what “Late Night Hashtag” they are going to come up with.
September 2010
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Watch 'Detroit 1-8-7' with us tonight →
Join us by using the hashtag #detroit187 in your tweet. We’ll retweet some of your reaction and insight. Let us know when you spot a Detroit landmark, a discrepancy in the script or even someone you know.
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Five ugly ducklings of a #hashtag
The following is a list of annoying uses of hashtags.
#haha - is this really necessary?
#the #entire #tweet #is #a #hashtag
#IHATEPLAYINGSEPARATETHEWORDSGAME
#sometrendingtopic then a link to some “BUY ME” website
the tweet is only one hashtag - #working
If you think of any others, send them to vikash at hashtagd dot com.
August 2010
6 posts
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I wonder if this experiment changed users... →
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hashtag art →
“turning streams into art”
don’t forget to click on an example and hover over the art.
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how to get suspended by twitter p.2
why?
simply put, we were aggressively following/unfollowing members.
but why would you do that?
at first it was to experiment to see what would happen. we received numerous @ reply mentions, clicks on links and additional followers. once we looked at our feedback we thought, “why don’t we just keep going?”
websites we used that led to our demise*
amateurs (websites or...
How Black People Use Twitter. →
The latest research on race and microblogging.
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suspended from twitter - part 1
what @hashtagd on twitter looked like a few days ago.
part 2 why were we suspended? how do you remedy the problem?
July 2010
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The Story Behind Wookieeleaks, a Hash Tag With... →
this past week we saw the re-emergence of wikileaks as a powerful force in journalism. wikileaks gives opportunity to publish unavailable documents with the safety net of anonymity. with its recent antics, it has caught the ear of the White House .
as with any breakthrough story online, copycats/remixes are always next in line. click on the link above to see how wikleaks became a mashup of...
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“Twitter is one big, fat inside joke between 100 million people”
– source
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Watch#latenighthashtags
in hopefully a reoccurring skit on Jimmy Fallon’s Late Night show, Jimmy introduced the hashtag “#whydonttheymakethat” for his audience members to take part in.
in the video above he goes over a few responses that made him “laugh and think”.
via pulse2
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hashtags 201
in this post we will go over how you can change the list of trending topics based on location.
with the ability to follow hoards of people on twitter, finding relevancy through real time streams can be difficult. one aspect of relevancy that is becoming mainstream is location. understanding what is happening in the world may not be as important as to what is happening where you currently are.
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June 2010
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hashtags 101
what is a hashtag? the ability to add a single (or multiple) “tag” to your message on twitter. adding a “tag” gives the ability for a message to be searched with a wider scope. adding a # before your “tag”, you have officially partaken or created a hashtag.
types of hashtags
subject adding a hashtag that is relevant but not within the message
i love...
May 2010
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learning what you already know
for the past six months, we have been working on #hashtagd thinking that we understood the product and how people were going to use it.
this past weekend we realized we were wrong on the way we people were going to use the product.
we only looked at #hashtagd as a website to “congregate” funny messages on twitter. what people enjoy about twitter is the ability to...
April 2010
5 posts
#tumblrtuesday
theresahashtagforthat:
to anyone that actually reads this blog,
first off, THANK YOU!
second, it’s Tumblr Tuesday. if you have 7.8 seconds: please recommend “theres a hashtag for that” to the Tumblr humor directory.
we appreciate any and all of your support
from, #hashtagd
p.s - this blog is a side project we have created
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#hashtagd @ futuremidwest
the gloomy days of Detroit being an unforeseen place to live and work are slowly losing color. just as the world was watching us create the “Industrial” revolution, the judgmental eyes of the world are under the belief we are losing our breath as the “Industrial” industries crumple.
in the words of Evey Hammond from V for Vendetta,
” We are told to remember the...
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formless --> structure
for the past few months hashtagd had been a hodge-podge of ideas. we knew what our “magic sauce” was, but the focus of execution evaded us.
well to the 9 users following us on twitter and our 10 fans on facebook, we are not going to disappoint you! outlined below are our initiatives from a marketing perspective.
hashtagd on twitter
send out tweets pertaining to twitter trends or...
March 2010
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