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Idea - #FollowFriday for #HashTags > #HashTagTues

DRAFT - STARTS TODAY (ELECTION DAY 2009)!

This is kind of a geeky idea but I'd love to grab a day of the week so that I could learn about what interesting HashTags are being used by people.

BackGround:

If you are on Twitter you probably know of the convention that on Friday people use the following Hashtag (more below) #FollowFriday (or #ff) to shout out to people (or groups / orgs / companies) that they think are worth following.

For example a tweet could look like this:

• #FollowFriday #ff Cool people that are progressives #p2:   @DrDigiPol, @GloPan, @jdp23, @DigitalSista

Where people reading this tweet would know that these are potentially interesting progressives (in this case also using the progressive HashTag of #p2).

(if you don’t understand this, then don’t worry, you are not on twitter!)

* FollowFriday idea - http://mashable.com/2009/03/06/twitter-followfriday/
* Hashtags idea.  More - http://twitter.pbworks.com/Hashtags

Idea:

I'd like to grab a day, say HashTag Tuesday, and start a way for people to follow Hashtags Vs. people.

Examples:

• #HashTagTues or #htt:  Progressive :  #p2, #TopProg, #Fem2, 
• #HashTagTues or #htt:  Conservative:  #TCOT
• #HashTagTues or #htt:  Political Races:  #VAGOV, #NJGOV, #CA10, 
• #HashTagTues or #htt:  Events / Conferences this week: #mHS09, #PubCamp, #NP20, #PDF09

Why:

I love the idea of #FollowFriday for following people.

However, I also find a huge amount of value following #HashTags around movements, conversations, events, conferences, groups, etc..

Thoughts?

Please use the comments below for further suggestions and ideas!  This is very much a DRAFT.

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Where was I these past years?  Under a Rock? 

No one told me about this amazing project, Post Secret.  A place where people send up to 200 anonymous post cards a day to one guy who posts the best on line and in books.

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Israeli Attack On Gaza - TOTD

Interesting data for Saturday's #IsCool Tweet of the Day with 22 click throughs on the URL.

In this case it was a Tweet tagged with #IsNotCool about the Israeli attack on Gaza that indicated that 100's of Hamas officers were among the dead. 

Here is the actual Tweet.

The Tweet linked off to a New York Times article about the attack.

Since that Tweet was "tweeted" a hashtag was created for Twitter around the incident (#Gaza) and it has become one of the top trending Twitter terms in according to Twitter Search.  Click here to see the term being used in real Tweets right now.  In fact, as I've written this post, 10 new Tweets were sent with the #Gaza hashtag.

From my perspective Twitter is becoming the "go to" place to learn about and then hear about the latest in breaking news.   Many traditional news outlets have their own "breaking XYZ" Twitter names and several people have created their own BreakingNews Twitter accounts as well.

As we saw with the Mumbai bombings and the creation of the #Mumbai hashtag, the Twittersphere can be on a story as fast or faster than the main stream media.

What remains to be seen is whether actual reporting can be done via Twitter that is mutually exclusive from the MSM, or is Twitter simply re"hashing" (not to be glib) what is seen on TV?