Steve Hodson Wonders About #Hashtags For Twitter

Steve Hodson asks:

[from A question for Twitter users out there | WinExtra]

[...] my main question is if this is suppose to be a way to identify a group or conversation thread within Twitter would you want to be able to know if the tag was being used in the wider public timeline or just your friends timeline.

The other question is how would be best to present these conversation threads as I have seen in some tweets multiple tags being used. Would your post be presented for each of the tags or just how would that be worked out.

I think people might want both: to be able to pull tweets from the public timeline or their buddylist using a #hashtag, or a boolean formula of #hashtags. By boolean formula I mean that a query like "all tweets tagged '#chewy' but not '#gooey'" might be represented as "search +#chewy -#gooey".

(see Chris Messina on Twitter Tags)

Comments

[Steven Hodson]

thanks for the input Stowe. Like I said I'm asking primarily because I was to add some experimental support for the idea in TwitBox.