Twitter is a lot of fun. I enjoy getting everyone’s updates, from celebrities to political figures to homegrown friends. It’s a great way to stay on top of things…until there’s a hashtag party I’m not involved in. Then my twitter page gets filled with all these stupid tweets about crayons and gno’s (girls night out) and Nestle products. Now, I love crayons and Nestle products and definitely girls’ nights out and I like the people who tweet about them. I just don’t want to see all the tweets.
Hashtags, for those of you uninitiated with Twitter (yet), are a way for people to find what you’re tweeting about. It’s like tagging blog posts so your content is easier found. If you place a hashtag in your tweet then it becomes easier to search and find. For instance, if I wanted to congratulate Sugarland for their win last night I could tweet something like: “Congrats on another win Sugarland! You owe it all to Agnes Scott, right!? #CMA”
Just say Crayola decided to have a Twitter party and everyone involved would use the hashtag #Crayola. I would get a lot of freaking tweets about how “crayons are awesome! #Crayola” or “crayons were all I got to play with growing up. #Crayola” or “did you know they’re the perfect size to fit up kids’ nostrils? #Crayola.” Just supposing…not insinuating that this actually happened (but it did).
I am begging Twitter to come up with a way to hide those hashtag subjects! It would make me, and others, a whole lot happier. And it wouldn’t hurt in the slightest the people who were wanting to play along. Truthfully, they’re all talking to and amongst themselves anyway. I’m forced to be eavesdropping. I Googled to see if there was a way to hide certain hashtags and there are plenty of people in internetland who are as sick of it as me. No luck though on a solution.
Twitter…or one of you Twitter-based softwares out there, come up with an option to hide those hashtags we don’t want to be eavesdropping in on. Get with the 21st century! #hidethehashtags!
Not So SAHM 
I still can’t figure out twitter. It makes me feel dumb…
I’ve seen the hashtags on tweets, but I’ve only seen them on people that I follow…. I’ve never had any other tweets show up because of it. Maybe it’s because I don’t ever use hashtags? Or maybe because I never use twitter on the web, only tweetdeck? Who knows. It took me forever and a day to even figure out what the stinkin’ thing was in the first place!
I only see the tweets from people I follow as well, but sometimes (like last night with radio flyer wagons) someone goes CRAZY tweeting with a certain hashtag. I’d just like the option to hide those 😉
Maybe there’s a crayon stuck up there and that’s what made you sick this week?
when we meet, I will have to learn about Twitter from you. And a friend of mine just posted about a “playuesm” in Bethesda MD that was super fun, do you want to go there with me with your girls. It looks super cool!
They don’t bother me, but I wonder if I’ll notice it now that you’ve said something? #thanksforsharing
I don’t get hashtags either. Or Twitter as a whole, for that matter. The whole thing makes me feel stoopid.
P.S. The ER IS a magnet for derelicts. Wonder why that is???
New here…originally from CairoTyp0’s blog and now here, nice to meet you!
#s. I use them sometimes, like #photo or #image or #sunrise…
What I’m surprised is @followfriday. Do somebody really click those @xxxx names? I don’t.
Plus I don’t want to have that kind of duty every Friday, I don’t have time nor intrest.
How about you? what do you think about @followfriday?
Bye!
Greetings from Cairo, Egypt! (I’m a Finnish expat living now here)