Comments on: Weekly links: Twitter bits http://erambler.co.uk/2009/04/19/weekly-links-twitter-bits/ Jez Cope's e-learning blog Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:20:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jez http://erambler.co.uk/2009/04/19/weekly-links-twitter-bits/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Jez Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:29:41 +0000 http://allacademic.wordpress.com/?p=213#comment-11 <p>@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.</p> <p>@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.</p> @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.

]]> By: Matt http://erambler.co.uk/2009/04/19/weekly-links-twitter-bits/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Matt Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:10:07 +0000 http://allacademic.wordpress.com/?p=213#comment-10 <p>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.</p> <p>My $0.02 :) think I'll be following a few of those 13 twits!</p> 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!

]]> By: Joanna Young http://erambler.co.uk/2009/04/19/weekly-links-twitter-bits/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Joanna Young Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:26:48 +0000 http://allacademic.wordpress.com/?p=213#comment-9 <p>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!</p> 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!

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