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Hashtags – making sense of Twitter

December 24th, 2007 by

If you append a tag prefaced by a #, the hashtags site will cluster them.

This is a cool example of metadata being layered in from outside an app. Well, the metadata is being created inside the app (Twitter) but it’s only metadata, and not noise, because an external app (hashtags) says so….

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  1. on 24 Dec 2007 at 7:54 pm1 Nate Westheimer

    This is great. I first heard of this through Chris Messina.

  2. on 30 Dec 2007 at 8:59 pm2 peter

    Your book is on my wish list and judging from the intro material I’ve read (c/o here and Creative Generalist) is a must read for me. I’m webmaster of Hodges’ model:

    http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/

    – a global framework for knowledge, with four fairly unique link resources. You may find this recent blog post (and others?) of relevance?

    http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2007/12/to-all-average-scholars.html

    All the best for 2008 and beyond…

  3. on 02 Jan 2008 at 10:32 am3 Teketen

    There is a communitary effort to create semantic information in small text messages like twiter, jaiku or SMS. Is opened to discussion and all effort is apreciatted. Some apps are using nanoformats to their message syntax. If you are interested: http://www.microformats.org/wiki/twitternanoformats

  4. on 27 Aug 2008 at 2:12 pm4 Sniki BETA: Hash Tags

    […] by Rod Edwards * Making the most of hashtags by Chris Messina * Hashtags.org by Stowe Boyd * Making sense of Twitter by David Weinberger * http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/18/hashtags-for-my-followees/ […]

  5. on 28 Aug 2008 at 12:59 pm5 Desarae A. Veit

    Rod,

    Thanks for the sniki referance.

    This is a perfect example of when the social media wiki can be helpful. :)

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