Comments on: Event Hashtag Etiquette: Overheard @ #SMXWest

By: Dana Lookadoo

Dana Lookadoo — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:30:22 +0000

ahhh…humbled, gosh. Guess I was tweeting verbosely with proper hashtag etiquette!

I sooooo look forward to kickin’ it with you at a conference, hopefully soon!

By: Lauren Litwinka

Lauren Litwinka — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:41:08 +0000

@Dana – Thanks for taking the time to comment. If I may, it was pretty unanimous- your tweet coverage via #SMX was truly top-notch. I know a few folk who had @lookadoo columns set up in TweetDeck specifically to follow along with the goods. Hence- you were *totally* deserving of the mentions. Hopefully one day we can kick it at a conf IRL.

By: Dana Lookadoo

Dana Lookadoo — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:12:27 +0000

Eloquently worded. Hashtags enable us to follow a stream of consciousness related to the topic. What someone is personally doing can be tweeted, sure, but don’t put the hashtag on it.

It helped that prior to the conference Danny Sullivan tweeted that #smx was the official hashtag to eliminate variations and to enable us to follow one stream.

Following streams: Twazzup is my “RTS portal” of choice to follow #smx, and I had it open throughout the conference: http://www.twazzup.com/?q=smx

Thanks, Lauren, for the mentions. It was nice to connect with you during the event via Twitter as well, second best to you being there!

By: Lauren Litwinka

Lauren Litwinka — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:50:39 +0000

@Larry – We see Chris’ point of view as well. Not trying to be the Tweepolice here, just explaining the types of tweets featuring event hashtags that serve our needs as we track conference coverage. I agree with your last point completely: no one’s forced to append an event hashtag to their tweets just because they’re present… a main feature of the # is to easily aggregate thematic tweets, but “Eating a ham sandwich #smx,” for example, stands fine on its own w/o the hashtag

By: Larry Bruce

Larry Bruce — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:23:13 +0000

Thanks for including me in the do’s I feel the same way when trying to follow an event on twitter from a far. It hard enough to keep up with the relevant tweets!

On the other hand I have to agree with Chris in some respects it is an open forum and we need to keep it that way. The last thing anyone wants it a twitter police.

Tweeps just be mindful you are the citizen journalist and codependents for us back home we want good relevant info so if its just you keeping up with friends or not relevant to the venue, forget the hash tag.

Thanks,
@pcmguy

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By: Lauren

Lauren — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:18:51 +0000

@chris: Apologies if we hurt your feelings or tweaked other instincts. That’s not our intent. We’re not telling anyone what they can and can’t do, only discussing what works for us as we follow coverage. Of course, anyone can tweet anything they want. That’s the beauty of Twitter, which does not mean that it’s all useful to me.

Please note the following text in the post: “We mean no offense to any attendee mentioned here. We love your tweets, too. Everybody is beautiful in their own way. This post speaks to what served our needs as we consumed the conference from afar and nothing else. since that’s the truth, we hope the clarification helps. . Thanks for stopping by. Your comment was useful.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:05:52 +0000

seriously, who are you telling people what to tweet? it’s a platform not in your control. maybe someones using your hashtag for sth. completely different and you can’t do a thing about it. sorry this twitter police post just made me somehow a bit angry.