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iolanthe_rosa

Twitter Question

Jan 19, 2009 14:42

Confused. What does it mean when something is preceded by the # sign? I follow @nprpolitics on Twitter, and they keep talking about #inaug09 that has something to do with the inauguration. Their "special coverage of #inaug09" begins at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday; "we've received 10,000 tweets so far for #inaug09" etc. What is this?

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thisside January 19 2009, 22:52:52 UTC

I think it's like a tag, so you can find people twittering about the same subject.

iolanthe_rosa January 19 2009, 23:06:31 UTC

Oh, so does that mean that there is a place where I enter those characters, and it brings me to a screen that aggregates all the tweets using those characters? How do I get to that display?

thisside January 19 2009, 23:31:32 UTC

I think you can do it at hashtags.org .

thisside January 19 2009, 23:33:41 UTC

I just searched, you can also do it at http://search.twitter.com/

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zarchasmpgmr January 20 2009, 00:31:20 UTC

I used that during the recent fires in L.A. (#lafire)

samena April 21 2009, 14:28:40 UTC

Hi! This is completely off topic, but I noticed that you haven't posted in about 3 months and I was wondering if everything is OK with you. I really miss you on LJ, and I know I'm not the only one. I hope all is fine.

Hugs,
Catrine