Catalogue and Classify Those Tweets

The recent announcement about The Library of Congress acquiring the back archive of tweets got me thinking again about meaning in Twitter hashtags. I jokingly suggested that L.O.C. might like to classify them all. Thinking about it properly, classifying them might be useful. I’m not thinking about all tweets, but hashtags mentioned in the tweets. [...]

Meaning in Twitter Hashtags

(NB: Originally posted on Library2.0.ning 11/12/09) I find hashtags on Twitter a useful way of pulling all the information about a particular discussion together. However, sometimes I see a hashtag that is attached to an interesting tweet, but I haven’t got a clue what the background of the hashtag is. If I’ve not been involved [...]