What if Newspapers had a hash tag for every news report they produced?
What if Magazines had a hash tag for every report they produced?
What if Journals had a hash tag for every published article they produced?
This would mean that these industries would be able to have interactive twitter communities focusing their discussion on particular reports. For most of these reports the communities associated with the particular hash tag wouldn't grow very large. However, some would. In these cases, the .com equivalent of the hash tag would become valuable to communities.
The problem that these groups would have is finding the right hash tag for each report. Many concepts that these reports portray require many words to define which is quite ugly to string together in a 140 character tweet.
The solution:
Hashtag Shortening
If I have a concept such as "Mobile Phones Cause Brain Cancer", I could use the following hashtags:
a) #MobilePhonesCauseBrainCancer
or
b) #bc24
The later hashtag is more desirable to promote as it doesn't clog up the 140 character limit of a tweet. Promotion of the hashtag is required for a community to accept the new definition of the hash tag because you don't understand the meaning of the hashtag unless you are educated on what it means.
For most of us, shortening hashtags is pointless because we don't have enough followers to educate the new definition of the hash tag to a large community. However, the media industry (Particularly the Newspaper Industry) are well positioned to profit by promoting shortened hashtags. These shortened hashtags have the potential to create communities around short meaningless sets of numbers and letters.
If using shortened hashtags takes off in the media industry, I think that they will be very interested in buying short domain names relevant to the shortened hashtags they promote.
I would love constructive criticism to my idea. Can you find flaws with my thinking?
What if Magazines had a hash tag for every report they produced?
What if Journals had a hash tag for every published article they produced?
This would mean that these industries would be able to have interactive twitter communities focusing their discussion on particular reports. For most of these reports the communities associated with the particular hash tag wouldn't grow very large. However, some would. In these cases, the .com equivalent of the hash tag would become valuable to communities.
The problem that these groups would have is finding the right hash tag for each report. Many concepts that these reports portray require many words to define which is quite ugly to string together in a 140 character tweet.
The solution:
Hashtag Shortening
If I have a concept such as "Mobile Phones Cause Brain Cancer", I could use the following hashtags:
a) #MobilePhonesCauseBrainCancer
or
b) #bc24
The later hashtag is more desirable to promote as it doesn't clog up the 140 character limit of a tweet. Promotion of the hashtag is required for a community to accept the new definition of the hash tag because you don't understand the meaning of the hashtag unless you are educated on what it means.
For most of us, shortening hashtags is pointless because we don't have enough followers to educate the new definition of the hash tag to a large community. However, the media industry (Particularly the Newspaper Industry) are well positioned to profit by promoting shortened hashtags. These shortened hashtags have the potential to create communities around short meaningless sets of numbers and letters.
If using shortened hashtags takes off in the media industry, I think that they will be very interested in buying short domain names relevant to the shortened hashtags they promote.
I would love constructive criticism to my idea. Can you find flaws with my thinking?
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