Decoding the Twitter Hash Tag Mystery

I am a writer, graphic designer, and ranked by Google,MSN and Yahoo America's Favorite Love columnist I am engaged to Rick London a writer, cartoonist and brand designer, together, we own the seo and branding firm Pen And Ink Inc.

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 Discovery - A Word To The 'Celebrity' Who Never Follows Anyone Back...

zaibatsuA Word To The 'Celebrity' Who Never Follows Anyone Back... - http://tinyurl.com/d5rpcc PLZ RT

Twitflict - Social vs Selling - Marketing on Twitter

Twitflict = Twitter Conflict
Twitfomercials = Twitter Infomercials

As a young Mother I began selling AVON in the 1980s as it allowed me to care for my son and still earn an income. My biggest problem was not selling to strangers it was approaching friends. I never wanted the selling to interfere with the friendship. Strangers it was a sale or no sale proposition with no loss for making the full on sales pitch.

My Husband and I began discussing the following 2 Days ago. Our twitflict is the more we interact and become part of the Twitter community the more reluctant I am to make a full sales pitch to my fellow Twits. We find a barrage of selling with no interaction very annoying. So how do we keep from becoming "that guy/gal" with constant stream of Twitfomercials filling the screen?

If we interact too much, too little, give an occasional sales pitch or lay low will we be unfollowed? We have a web site http://www.thehillers.com/ and are proud of our products/customer service. The flip side is we really enjoy the reparte on Twitter and don't want to loose that.

This Morning this twitter arrived and it has shown me that much of what we have been contimplating is important to the Twitter Community as well.

colderICE RT @AlexKaris: Please RT - What is the NUMBER 1 reason you Unfollow People? [POLL] http://twitpwr.com/4w5/

http://twtpoll.com/r/83y4kq
Poll Results as of 02/15/09 10:33 PST - Note the comments that follow the poll

	I Never unfollow people. [ 5% (38 votes) ]
	Tired of watching them self promote with links & no interaction. [ 42% (300 votes) ]
	They tweet way too much everyday. [ 19% (135 votes) ]
	They tweet vulgar information. [ 10% (70 votes) ]
	They like to instigate confrontational conversation. [ 2% (11 votes) ]
	They Don't Follow me back. [ 11% (81 votes) ]
	How do you unfollow people? [ 1% (6 votes) ]
	Other (please comment below) [ 10% (71 votes) ]