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[...] Loin de moi l’idée de jouer une fois de plus le rabat-joie mais je trouve ces pratiques particulièrement stériles. Où est le dialogue ? Où est l’engagement de la marque ? Tout ça ne mène à rien, et pourtant il semblerait que les pratiques de “hashtag marketing” se professionnalisent : What The Hashtag: Your Guide To Enigmatic Twitter Hashtags. [...]

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Daily Links for Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:29:32 +0000

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By: Spencer Schoeben

Spencer Schoeben — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:26:55 +0000

I don’t think Mike wants “What the Trend” to be the standard!

Look where his name links to!!!

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links for 2009-07-07 « 個人的な雑記 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:03:57 +0000

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By: G.O.

G.O. — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:35:19 +0000

But #MrsSlocombe wasn’t spam.

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Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:25:31 +0000

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By: Mark Bockenstedt

Mark Bockenstedt — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:32:23 +0000

I’ve looked into it quite a bit, believe me. Unfortunately there are no extensions for “Twitter Connect” or whatever you want to call it so it’s going to have to be a meticulously crafted, brand new extension. Being a relative newcomer to MediaWiki development and the lone developer for our team, I’m inundated with things to do. If you know anyone that can/wants to help, send em our way!

By: Hashtags: Hashed and Re-hashed | blondish.net

Hashtags: Hashed and Re-hashed | blondish.net — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:39:54 +0000

[...] While TechCrunch gives a guide to understanding Twitter hashtags and trending topics, we have sites like What The Hashtag trying to make some semblence of the trending topic mess. What The Hashtag is a site that basically documents the trending topics and how they have developed. By the way, while using Firefox and my broadband, this site loaded VERY slowly, well over 40 seconds. I just about gave up, but being a dial-up user (not by choice, but because of location) not so long ago, I stuck it out despite the impatience. Note to What The Hashtag site owners: Perhaps a bit optimizing on the Media Wiki databases that the site works is something to consider doing soon. [...]

By: Erbo

Erbo — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:05:30 +0000

Nice. I’ve already added three definitions for hashtags that weren’t in their database.

By: Joe Dawson

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:55:47 +0000

I used to really value trending topics/hashtags but they have lost their edge over the last few months. The system gets gamed too much and I want to check what’s happening NOW, not the three words people say before sex or a popular phrase to win a weekend in Paris!

Twitter should create background organisation, possibly subjects like tech, sport, news, OFF TOPIC

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Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:22:35 +0000

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By: Spencer Schoeben

Spencer Schoeben — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:58:22 +0000

I did some more research. Looks like What the Hashtag is providing a similar concept.

http://wthashta.../WTH:TwitterBot

It allows you to do something like this:

@wthashtag def #austin Disney World Employee killed in monorail accident.

By: Spencer Schoeben

Spencer Schoeben — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:53:20 +0000

Your idea of the .define syntax is interesting but it doesn’t provide the same functionality. Anyway, Twitter is all about 3rd party functionality. Take TwitPic for example!!!

Anyway, I do have to agree with you on the creating a separate account thing! You should just be able to login with your Twitter account; the same way you do on TwitPic.

By: Spencer Schoeben

Spencer Schoeben — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:48:55 +0000

One more thing! I know this might be a little bit hard with MediaWiki but if I were you, I would ditch the OpenID and let people log in with their Twitter account. You might even want to get rid of the normal account creation an ultimitly only allow people to use their Twitter app with the site.

I suggest this for multiple reasons. First of all, having all these login methods but no Twitter login method for a Twitter site is ridiculous. Secondly, you kind of want people to have to use their Twitter account to use your site. Why? Only people with Twitter accounts have the knowledge to define a hash tag. Also, if everyone on the site is logged in on Twitter, their is some potential to do something with that in the future.

By: Spencer Schoeben

Spencer Schoeben — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:44:41 +0000

Yes. I’ve given your site a better look. It’s awesome! I guarantee you’ll be the standard.

I was a little confused at first. I was just browsing on the site—didn’t register. The UI for a logged-out user is very confusing. Once I logged in, it made more sense.

Anyways, you should redesign the “recently added hashtags” section for logged-out users so it looks more like what it does where you are logged in!

By: 墨尔本

墨尔本 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:52:31 +0000

Hehe, another great idea around twitter.

By: led display

led display — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:50:58 +0000

Looks very cool ..i agree

By: Alan Levine

Alan Levine — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:48:36 +0000

The problem with those approaches is that it requires traversing to another web site (login) and manually entering the definition of a tag.

I had a different suggestion, following from the history of Twitter features not defined by twitter (@, #, RT)- a meta language could be created within twitter, so that I might tweet something like:

.define #htc09 Hash Tag Conference 2009, join us July 31 at the Toledo La Quinta http://bit.ly/….

so a syntax of “.define” before a hash tag means the definition comes afterward. It could be this or some other construct- the point is, that a meta language could be rolled right into twitter.

I only have the idea http://cogdogblog.com/3700 not the code power to create a service. It could be someone’s Big Idea to Get Rich.

By: DarioUP

DarioUP — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:19:57 +0000

I didn’t know tags existed in twitter until the #IranElections events happened. This is how I got curious about this article. But how do you see twitts of a particular topic? How do you know what topics exist and are popular?

By: HAVOC MARKETING

HAVOC MARKETING — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:14:47 +0000

Wish you all the best, Mike. Keep up the good work. I hope “What The Trend.com” becomes the standard site for deciphering Twitter Trending Topics. I love it and use it myself. It helps me in keeping up with the latest topic trends at Twitter.

By: Mike Templeton

Mike Templeton — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:10:58 +0000

I agree completely. One of these sites is going to take off and that will become the standard. We just hope the one that takes off is ours.

When we launched What the Hashtag, there were already 2-3 other sites trying to do something similar. That is why we’ve taken things farther with hashtag statistics, our own real-time streaming widget with OAuth for posting, plus the obvious context surrounding a hashtag.

Thanks for your feedback and thanks to TechCrunch for this article!