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Hi Jez, thanks for mentioning my piece about Twitter – it sparked an amazing conversation, I had no idea other people found blethering about the weather so interesting too!
Interesting. Not convinced on the hashtag thing though – the big problem is that not enough people know about that site to make it the de facto authoritative source on hashtags. I could mention two more (hashtags.org, but that’s not a dictionary, and hashdictionary.com) without looking it up, but of those, only hashtags stores them all, and that’s only because it really just accesses twitter for every request. A much better thing to do would be to modify hashtags.org to include definitions for tags too.
My $0.02
think I’ll be following a few of those 13 twits!
@Joanna You’re welcome! It’s nice when a short comment prompts a long and interesting conversation. I’m quite a fan of rain myself, for some reason.
@Matt Yes, it’s a nice idea and I’d love to see it catch on. If you follow @wthashtag you get a couple of useful features: 1) every time a new hashtag starts trending (how did ‘trend’ ever become a verb?), it posts a tweet inviting someone to define it; and 2) you can send it a DM with the name of any hashtag and it’ll respond straight away with the definition.