Comments on: Why You Should Consider Using Hashtags

By: qova

qova — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:12:11 +0000

This is a really great post. I passed it along, blogged about it, and I am applying it to my own tweeting. Thanks for providing such a simple yet effective argument. Great articulation.

By: Marcus Emmanuel Barnes

Marcus Emmanuel Barnes — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 02:41:19 +0000

Hi Everyone!

Steve: I was originally using hashtags.org to find ideas for useful hashtags to use, but they continue to have scaling issues – you may get an error 503 page (overcapacity) when you visit (I just did).

@RunningQuest: The week before writing this post, I was experimenting with using hashtags within my tweets — I have to agree that I don’t like the way they look too as they make tweets harder to read. One of the great things about the Twitter 140 character limit is that you can scan quickly. That said, including hashtags at the end of your tweets allows you to take advantage of any traffic to your profile generated via web applications (like Mentionmap) that utilize the Twitter API and hashtag data, yet not compromise the readability or your tweets. You’ll notice that in the majority of my tweets that include hashtags, I use 2 or 3 at the very end — just as if they were keywords.

By: ronnie

ronnie — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:34:41 +0000

Thanks for the post I’m going with #green since most of the products I market are eco and green friendly!

By: Bill Bolmeier

Bill Bolmeier — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:47:38 +0000

Yes, I keep forgetting about hashtags. I’ll have to keep experimenting. Twitter’s real-time search is incredible. They do provide interesting ways for people to describe their tweets.

By: Are Morch

Are Morch — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:57:36 +0000

Well, I use hashtags a lot. But never thought about using it more creative as a keyword.

Darn.. this is “Tip Of The Day”. TXS…

I’ll award this tip a retweet..

Guess I should use #twitip…

Cheers.. Are

By: Clynton

Clynton — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:10:19 +0000

Thanks for this post. What I’ve never understood is why not just use the keywords you think your audience is going to be looking for? Afterall, you can search for words, not just those with a hashtag before them. I personally don’t like the way hashtags look.

By: Sharon Mostyn

Sharon Mostyn — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:55:00 +0000

Great post! I use hashtags to find topics of interest (especially events that I would have liked to attend but couldn’t) and from those hashtags I can find others who are interested in the same topics as well as useful links.

By: John Paul

John Paul — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:54:22 +0000

Great post,, I started using the hashtag #moneydummyblog that way if people would search that all my important posts, and rt’s and replies would pop up.

You def gave me a few more ideas..

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:29:01 +0000

So, for a beginner, are their standard hashtags for certain topics? A directory of hashtags?

By: Papa Js

Papa Js — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:29:00 +0000

Thanks for that blog Marcus, really helpful for new users like ourselves.