Roomatic

Roomatic is a experiment to create a chatroom-like user interface on top of Twitter. It uses the Twitter Search JSON API (previously Summize) to poll for Twitter updates with the room’s name in it. Posts from Roomatic are automatically marked with the room name. Room names can also be full urls (for example: http://tinyurl.com/3c9ljq). Users can also use #hashtags to differentiate rooms and help narrow conversations (use %23 in front of the room name).

Here are some popular rooms:

1. roomatic
2. iphone
3. %E6%B2%89%E9%BB%98%E7%8B%BC
4. communipedia
5. broomatic
6. confluence
7. Felix%20from%20Hamburg
8. FedoraCommons

Filed under Conversations, Groups & Following Tools, Hashtags |

Twitter Hashtags Script

This Greasemonkey script adds links to hashtags.org, twemes.com or summize.com to tweets on twitter.com.

Filed under Hashtags, Scripts |

Twitag

Twitag lets you group, organize, and search through the various hashtags used on Twitter. Essentially, the site functions as a hashtag search engine where the search results display all the tweets containing that hashtag.

Filed under Hashtags, Search |

Twitter Census

The service Twitter Census uses a hashtag to track responses to a Twitter poll. To use, you tweet a question using the #survey hashtag, then set up a unique, new hashtag for the responses. Lots of worth for just asking a question, but at least it’s organized.

Filed under Hashtags, Polls |

#Hashtags

Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They’re like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag. Hashtags were developed as a means to create "groupings" on Twitter, without having to change the basic service. To use hashtags, add @hashtags as a Twitter contact and then precede any tag you want to use with the hashmark (#) character.

Here are some examples of hashtags:

# Events or conferences: i.e.: "Tara’s presentation on communities was great! #barcampblock"
# Disasters: "#sandiegofire A shelter has opened up downtown for fire refugees."
# Memes: "My #themeword for 2008 is conduct."
# Context: "I can’t believe anyone would design software like this! #microsoftoffice"
# Recall: "Buy some toilet paper. #todo"

(Via Twitter Fan Wiki)

Filed under Hashtags |