Hashtags.org

It looks like the Twitter #hashtags convention that Chris Messina and others-- including me -- have been pushing has been implemented by a group of developers (Eli, Neil, and Paul, Cody Marx Bailey and Aaron Farnham, thank you!). The site is up and running at hashtags.org.

You only need to do a few things for it to work:

1. Add @hashtags as a Twitter contact ('follow'), and they will reciprocate. They will then see all of your public Tweets.
2. Precede any tag you want to use with the hashmark character ('#').
3. They have ignored my multi word convention, where #san francisco# would be used, and have gone with the easier-to-implement but uglier-to-read approach of #san+francisco. I checked this out empirically, below.

You can search for tags at their site, and each tag has an RSS feed, so you can subscribe.

Comments

[Cody Marx Bailey]

Not sure who Eli, Neil, and Paul are, but Aaron Farnham and myself are the developers, owners, and maintainers of hashtags.org.

Pretty happy to see this come together! I hear performance on both sites (Twitter and Hashtags) is lagging a bit, but the fact that we now have a demonstration of the concept that you can push on is awesome.

Now we need hashclouds! Oh wait, don't we have those on Haight Street already? ;)

[Mark Scrimshire]

I have just proposed a social experiment with the playoffs to demonstrate the power of Twitter and hashtags. Let's show the NCAA that they need to rethink their blogging throttling plans.

http://ekive.blogspot.com/2008/01/sports-and-social-experiment.html

You will also find the article on digg: http://www.digg.com/football/Sports_and_a_Social_Network_Experiment