Posts Tagged ‘hashtag’

Liberal Children’s Books: A Spontaneous Twitter Game

1st September 2009 by Catherine Favazza 3 Comments

Last night a seemingly spontaneous group of conservatives and Republicans started playing a game on Twitter. I first saw a message from Stephen Green (@Vodkapundit) with the hashtag (a code that enables an easy, quick search for similar Tweets) #liberalchildrensbooks that said, “Oh the Thinks You Can’t Think!” I searched the hashtag to see what [...]

Web Jargon for New Online Activists, Part 1: Hashtags and Twitter Search

14th August 2009 by Catherine Favazza 1 Comment

At the RightOnline conference opening panel, it became pretty obvious that there is a need for a guide to Internet jargon for activists. There are sites that explain how to use Twitter, sure, but none or few that are obviously directed to a political audience. And people who need 101 guides to Twitter, for example, [...]