Decoding the Twitter Hash Tag Mystery

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Within the million tweets 140 character world of Twitter the tiny hash tag aka Pound Symbol [#] is the difference between your messages being seen or being overlooked. Although not an official Twitter feature the hash tag is a simple and effect way to ensure your tweet will appear when others seek out similar information. Hash tagged words are the Twitter equivalent of internet keywords. A simple click on the hash tagged word or a search at search.twitter.com and you will find all the tagged tweets with matching words.

A good place to start is by following @hashtags on Twitter then every time you tweet with a hash tag reference it will show up as a real-time posting at hashtags.org. You can easily check trending topics at their site and see what might be pertinent to your daily tweets. Current popular daily hash tags include #music, #quote, #jobs, #phone, #news and #socialmedia.

The hash tag is a twitter community builder allowing likeminded individuals to share information and ideas. Twitter’s social media follow Friday event is a good hash tag example and is represented by #followfriday or #ff these tags are used by a majority of Twitterers to spotlight individuals they consider worth following. Once you see a tweet with the #followfriday hash tag click in it and you will see volumes of recommendations which appear in a search format at search.twitter.com.

Hash tag creation is as simple as tweeting “#pdxtweetup Portland Grill 8pm Tuesday 10th” this lets friends know to where and when to meet you for the next Portland Tweet-up. The added hash tag will allow anyone in your group to check of an upcoming event. Are you watching Fringe or #Fringe? If you want your opinion about the show to be found it is an important difference. Been to a film or rented a DVD you can hash tag the title and leave a review for everyone to see.

By using hash tags you can create a group, find others watching the same television shows, rate a movie or track a charitable cause. It is also an excellent business tool for tracking the trending topics of the twenty-five million plus daily visitors to Twitter. Whether you want your opinion of a favorite book to reach the Twitterverse or want to stay up-to-date for an event the tiny hash will allow you to inform others or be informed.

Twitter - The 2000 or Why we had to unfollow you

Why did we unfollow you??? Your selfish and think you are more important than us so you did not see the need to reciprocate our follow! #:o)>

Seriously there is a powerful force on Twitter it is the number 2000. The 2000 Followers you must have before you can follow more than 2000 other Tweeple. We have seen numerous posting asking why they can't follow that the follow function is not working. Why are Tweeple unfollowing them. We totally understand the 2000 limit is in place to stop Follow Spammers. It can be frustrating for the little guy like us. We love to interact, retweet and follow your links...

As we currently do not have 2000 Followers (Panhandling for followers: Follow Us, PLEASE! http://twitter.com/thehillers) we are limited to 2000 that we can follow. In an effort to keep from exceeding this number we unfollow anyone we follow who does not reciprocate. This rules out following all but a few celebrities who follow us back and a considerable percentage the top 50 Twits. Our exception are Newspapers, Reuters etc. as we don't have an expectation of interaction.

So if you want us to follow bring your friends and help us achieve 2000 so we can follow all the rich & famous and include their rantings in our Retweets.