Can someone explain the obsession with hash-tags?

[Rick Lee]

Originally Posted by Z-man

HOWEVER, why would I hastag words like "happy" "sad" or "confused" ?? If you hastag everything, then vital information can be lost in the noise.

This is the most important aspect of social media monitoring. Orgs wants to be able to track tonality and sentiment around the issues they monitor. There are a lot of services out there with sophisticated algorithms that look for words they associate with negative, positive or neutral tone. For example, "loss" might be considered negative. But put "weight" in front of it and, in the US anyway, it becomes positive and an term the FDA or Jenny Craig's social media experts would want to pick up.

[onewhippedpuppy]

#Idon'tgetit

Maybe that means I'm getting old? I'm certainly not interesting enough to regularly tweet out my daily activities, and I certainly don't care what you are doing. Now get off my lawn!

[BlueSkyJaunte]

#brownies

Originally Posted by nostatic

[vash]

Originally Posted by nostatic

oh wait, I thought you were talking about these kind of tags. Silly me...

wait..did the stoners misspell marijuana?

[Porsche-O-Phile]

#doobies

[BReif61]

Originally Posted by VaSteve

@kaisan #hahaha

@VaSteve #nailedit

[Buckterrier]

Originally Posted by Z-man

Am I missing something here?
-Z-man.

I still don't know what the # tag thing means and I don't care to know.

[Z-man]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee

This is the most important aspect of social media monitoring. Orgs wants to be able to track tonality and sentiment around the issues they monitor. There are a lot of services out there with sophisticated algorithms that look for words they associate with negative, positive or neutral tone. For example, "loss" might be considered negative. But put "weight" in front of it and, in the US anyway, it becomes positive and an term the FDA or Jenny Craig's social media experts would want to pick up.

I understand that.

So: "#newcayman #awesomeness" has valuable information.
HOWEVER: "#ijustpooped #feelingood" doesn't have much value, unless you are a laxative company, and even then, I doubt there is much useful information there.

Seems twitter users are skewing the metadata by hashmarking everything to death.

But hey - "Everyone's doing it, and it looks so cool -- so I should do it as well!" IE: most people who hashmark everything to death do not understand the implications, which is the whole problem with Social Media.

-Z-man.

[RWebb]

dude! this #thread is trending DOWN!

[Tervuren]

Its new, its cool, some people over use it, I like melted butter on my toast, and ran two hours today in a kart. #random post

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by RWebb

dude! this #thread is trending DOWN!

#sphincter #winning

[VaSteve]

Lots of programs have the hashtag on the screen during the show. If I'm at home watching #hoarders I can discuss it in real time with other random people watching by clicking the hashtag. I used it a bunch during the debates and presidential election as well. Its very useful if others are using it. If you're the only one using a tag, its kinda pointless.

[widebody911]

#hipsterdouchebags

[Baz]

@Time for a #random pic.....

[gprsh924]

You guys are old.

[nostatic]

Originally Posted by Z-man

HOWEVER: "#ijustpooped #feelingood" doesn't have much value

once you reach a certain age, that has a lot of value...

[pete3799]

What's this texting you type of?

[sammyg2]

#poopyhead.

Oh don't act surprised, you know I'd get a round tuit eventually.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by pete3799

What's this texting you type of?

A guy at work sent me a text and then later asked why I didn't reply.
I said "because I'm not a teenage Girl."

#GOML

[legion]

I use wuphf.com for all of my social media needs.