Comments on: Hashtags on Twitter: How do you follow them?

By: Tweeting Away – January 23 – 27 | InterActions

Tweeting Away – January 23 – 27 | InterActions — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:46:08 +0000

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By: 5 Answers To Twitter Hashtag Mania: Including 10 Tools For Tracking

5 Answers To Twitter Hashtag Mania: Including 10 Tools For Tracking — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:37:07 +0000

[...] Here’s the catch: Hashtags aren’t an officially supported Twitter service. They’re merely a convention that Twitter users have adopted on their own, within the 140-character text-only constraints of tweeting. So you can’t follow a hashtag directly through your Twitter account. A hashtag is not a source of tweets. Rather, it’s a way to label (tag) tweets so they can be easily pulled together (Contentious). [...]

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By: Ensight – Jeremy Wright

Ensight – Jeremy Wright — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:21:16 +0000

[...] new you probably know more than you think you do, so let’s use and follow a hashtag on Twitter (http://www.contentious.com/2009/03/08/hashtags-on-twitter-how-do-you- follow-them/): #bwehelps. If you have a question, ask it of the hashtag and I will be checking it. Who else will [...]

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Tue, 05 Oct 2010 18:58:45 +0000

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By: Twitter Jumpstart « Freeella's Blog

Twitter Jumpstart « Freeella's Blog — Sun, 02 May 2010 22:35:36 +0000

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By: Neicole

Neicole — Mon, 11 May 2009 00:30:22 +0000

Your post was a great resource for me and helped clarify what the heck hashtags are. I was looking for a way to, effectively, do a distribution list for parents at my kids’ elementary school and thought maybe I could use Twitter hashtags for it. After reading your article, I realized they weren’t really set up for that.

However, I poked around and found a way to do it by subscribing to the RSS feed for the hashtag search and then using a service to get the feed emailed to me. I’ve used it for several hashtags/topics and it works like a charm. I wrote instructions at nmc.itdevworks.com.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:30:35 +0000

Thanks greatly for telling everyone how to follow hashtags on Tweetdeck. I spent all last night trying to find it and nothing, but I tried a different term tonight and yours came up first. Whew!

By: iteachmath2

iteachmath2 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:34:29 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Your article was the only one I found that explained how I can follow the hashtags that I am most interested in. Everyone else explained what they were, but you took it further for us newbies. I was under the impression you could join, then when someone posted to it, I would see their tweet. Again, thanks.

By: GlobetrotterSA

GlobetrotterSA — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:11:07 +0000

Good article. I wish one could follow hash tags directly through your twitter account. In the beginning you could track tags but it seems that service was stopped. I’m using Monitter and the normal Twitter search to follow tags but clearly I need to give Tweetdeck a go.