Comments on: Steal This Idea: Google Reader & Twitter Hashtags

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 28 May 2009 07:54:45 +0000

This is the third time I have come back to this article to apply the tips to my work. It really helps to do a summary of a chat. Thanks so much for the help!

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:51:14 +0000

Very useful… I use this to follow some ongoing conversations including #hackedu. I’m also archiving my tweets and using GReader as a Twitter client with a script that I put together.

I posted about it http://www.martinruiz.com/post/113277726/diy-twitter-client

Script at http://bit.ly/grittr

By: Marketing Man

Marketing Man — Sun, 24 May 2009 13:41:42 +0000

Wow, that was a seriously insightful post about harnessing the power inherent in twitter through the use of Google reader. Nice one Ruud! Love your insight man!

By: Pablo Stevenson

Pablo Stevenson — Fri, 22 May 2009 19:57:13 +0000

Thanks for using my Tweet exemple : @PabloStevenson

😉

By: Adam Sherk

Adam Sherk — Fri, 22 May 2009 19:16:41 +0000

Nice tip, I’ll definitely give this a shot.

By: Michael Long (The Red Recruiter)

Michael Long (The Red Recruiter) — Fri, 22 May 2009 03:38:17 +0000

@Swimming Pools – I’m sure that there are a few opinions on how to use hashtags… here are three that might help.

1) If you see a hashtag and wonder what it is, go over to http://search.twitter.com and type in the exact hashtag (i.e. #twitterclub, #socialmedia, #HR, etc…). You will get a grasp of the conversation pretty quickly from the various tweets.

2) To monitor a hashtag very easily, download a 3rd party application like TweetDeck (www.tweetdeck.com) and create a search field for the hashtag of interest. There is a small magnifying glass on top part of the interface… once you click it, you can type in the hashtag name. That way you are notified anytime someone says something new in that particular hashtag line.

3) There is a fairly new website called Twubs which allows you to monitor the hashtag conversation and any media that is shared. You can find it at (www.twubs.com). I think that it’s pretty great! If you want to make changes to the hashtag home, you can log in using your Twitter ID and password. You can actually tweet out directly from their site once you do that.

Good luck with everything!

Looking forward,
Michael

By: Swimming Pools

Swimming Pools — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:02:54 +0000

Im new to twitter and i have noticed “hashtags” as they are called. i was wondering when someone has written, for exemple #twitterclub, does that also get sent to anouther page with contains #twitterclub or do people just put it so other people know that they are talking to people in #twitterclub ? Also, what sites are they on ?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:27:34 +0000

Wow, this is surprisingly useful! Really useful, has helped me just organise my Google Reader archive, added with the bonus of the hash tags I can see big potential, thanks!

By: Lindsay McIntyre

Lindsay McIntyre — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:06:43 +0000

It sounds like a sort of Twitter filing system, which will be really useful for a lot of people when they want to go back to something they previously wrote. Am I right in saying that the # draws attention to the subjects, so that the search engines mark them as important?

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:15:00 +0000

In reply to Michael Long (The Red Recruiter).

The data is there; you can still go back to your first ever Tweet for example. It’s just that they don’t want to “burden” their service with search going back more than 30 days. There’s some real archival value in that beyond-30-days area though; that’s where Google Reader comes in.

The same idea can easily be applied to a user’s own stream. I follow less than 5 people that way on Twitter; subscribe to their twitter feed 🙂