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

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.

By: Ching Ya

Ching Ya — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:43:29 +0000

Very well explained. Yet I’m surprised there’s nobody commenting here! I think you’ve done well for answering most of my questions regarding hashtags, about how should I follow up on them, if I ever need to. Obviously there are times when we hated to see # in the middle of the sentences, but if it’s used wisely for info-sharing rather than ’spamming’ purposes, it would actually help alot. Thanks again, Amy for sharing this.

@wchingya