Twitter - Trending - Hashtags

peterattheboro · 2 Mar 2012 at 20:48

This is the most annoying thing to grace the internet. Worse than crazy frog, fat **** from Go Compare, nyan cat etc.

#go****yourself

#tfti

paradisiac · 2 Mar 2012 at 20:49

I have never got the point of twitter, am I missing something good?

kokuten · 2 Mar 2012 at 20:50

#boolcorystra

peterattheboro · 2 Mar 2012 at 20:50

paradisiac said:
I have never got the point of twitter, am I missing something good?

I understand the point of it but the # crap is bloody annoying.

Fenris · 2 Mar 2012 at 20:51

Then don't use twitter. Or just ignore the tags.

It's not a difficult concept to grasp, I don't like Facebook, I don't use Facebook, I don't like text speak, I don't use text speak.

Welcome to the wonderful world of free will.

peterattheboro · 2 Mar 2012 at 20:51

Fenris said:
Then don't use twitter.

I don't but now they have implemented Twitter into Facebook so when people 'tweet' it shows up there aswell!

And it's all over telly now aswell.

DcD · 2 Mar 2012 at 20:52

Twitter is great for people like myself trying to market stuff. But it's also littered with teenies talking about what they're going to have for lunch.

When a mature, online marketing driven trend comes about, sure. But when it's some ******** thing... Meh.

RomanNose · 2 Mar 2012 at 20:52

I used to use twitter but then they determined that correcting peoples bad use of grammar was spam when it clearly isn't. I am just protecting the English language from those who think a lot is one word.

Gerard · 2 Mar 2012 at 20:53

paradisiac said:
I have never got the point of twitter, am I missing something good?

Nope.

Fenris · 2 Mar 2012 at 20:54

paradisiac said:
I have never got the point of twitter, am I missing something good?

Maybe, it depends on what you want to use it for.

I use it to be kept up to date with music, writers, artists, games etc, it works perfectly for that purpose.

You don't have to actually tweet, in fact I actively discourage people from doing it.

peterattheboro · 2 Mar 2012 at 20:55

DcD said:
Twitter is great for people like myself trying to market stuff. But it's also littered with teenies talking about what they're going to have for lunch.

When a mature, online marketing driven trend comes about, sure. But when it's some ******** thing... Meh.

See that's spot on. Online marketing, some properly famous people you like to follow (like Chris Harris who does interesting car reviews) or for you average teen who likes to follow other celebs. But when it's just some person who no one gives a **** about..... :mad:

gillywibble · 2 Mar 2012 at 20:55

I love Nyan Cat.

Rich_L · 2 Mar 2012 at 20:57

I don't know quite what's so annoying about it tbh, it's almost genius in the simplicity of the concept.

paradisiac · 2 Mar 2012 at 21:00

ok, sorry for my ignorance, but I have never used twitter, what is all this hashtag stuff all about :confused:

I have noticed it mention on tv and stuff, but never really worried about it, as I don't use twitter.

peterattheboro · 2 Mar 2012 at 21:00

Moses said:
Oh noes!

They can be very useful - for example, I can search for #buafl... and I get all the American football scores I want to know.

Could you not just use a dedicated AFL site for that?

Strife212 · 2 Mar 2012 at 21:00

Just read a thread on #ocuk. Wasn't amused.

cu3ed · 2 Mar 2012 at 21:03

Never could understand any of it, signed up to it etc, but seems like a cluster **** of a mess of random links to other stories posted by people and random messages, just seemed like a huge headache and a mess of a place.

I will also never understand why the BBC is all over it and shows are constantly telling people to follow them on it, its blatant free advertising for the service, even in France they noticed this and banned all free advertising or talk about it on their TV shows.

Morgoth · 2 Mar 2012 at 21:04

It's people that use hash tags on Facebook that make me nerd rage.

Rich_L · 2 Mar 2012 at 21:04

paradisiac said:
ok, sorry for my ignorance, but I have never used twitter, what is all this hashtag stuff all about I have noticed it mention on tv and stuff, but never really worried about it, as I don't use twitter.

In short if people want to talk about a certain subject they can use a 'hashtag' which denotes their 'tweet' is about that subject.

The genius in it is that people can then search for a hashtag and you will get all the posts from people on that subject, plus you can look at the trend so if there is a sudden upward trend of people posting the #davidcameroncomesout hashtag then you can assume that there has been a bit of recent newsworthy activity

paradisiac · 2 Mar 2012 at 21:06

Rich_L said:
In short if people want to talk about a certain subject they can use a 'hashtag' which denotes their 'tweet' is about that subject.

The genius in it is that people can then search for a hashtag and you will get all the posts from people on that subject, plus you can look at the trend so if there is a sudden upward trend of people posting the #davidcameroncomesout hashtag then you can assume that there has been a bit of recent newsworthy activity

so I could (don't flame me if this aint how it works) hashtag my completely pointless tweets with something that is really popular, and it would show up when someone searched for that popular thing? or is it done by taking key things from the tweet with no user control?