Comments on: Local Hashtags: A Twitter Proposal

By: Alana

Alana — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:18:40 +0000

I like the idea of the #k7 in general. That way, we don’t have to specify different zones for events and so forth. If people in K7M want to meet up with people from K7L for drinks or something, using K7 seems fitting.

That, and it’s not a popularly used tag already, so adopting it won’t be confusing.

By: Unique-Frequency.com » Blog Archive » Hyper-Localising Twitter: Going Beyond Event Hashtags

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:24:35 +0000

[...] Vallier from Kingston, where I lived for almost five months, talks about a great idea of local hashtags to make local tweets even more searchable and relevant: It’s been hard, though, because while big [...]

By: Daryl Tay

Daryl Tay — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:41:24 +0000

Hi Tommy,

Although I don’t live in Kingston anymore, what a great idea! I think local relevance would be really great, and I could see setting up a search column in Tweetdeck to stay updated (maybe where the latest kegger is happening for the Queen’s students!).

One question though, while I was at Queen’s (about a year ago), there didn’t seem to be much action on Twitter. Has that changed?

By: Local Hashtags for Twitter : Kingstonist.com

Local Hashtags for Twitter : Kingstonist.com — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:02:01 +0000

[...] video. All feedback to this proposed system is more than welcome. You can also check out the full length post on my blog. Special thanks and original photo credit to [...]

By: Tommy

Tommy — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:26:28 +0000

As I mentioned in the post, I actually thought about that sort of tag first. The problem I saw with it was that it was too big from a geographical sense and I thought breaking it down to a smaller, more precise area would be smarter… I’ve been wrong before, though.

By: Harvey Kirkpatrick

Harvey Kirkpatrick — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:42:48 +0000

I think this is an amazing idea. I’ve sen it used here and there in other cities, and I think the main challenge will be promoting usage. The largest hurdle I hear of new Twitter users is that they often find themselves at a loss with the whole hash tag concept. That in and of itself could be better explained on Twitter. Anywho, I’m game to give it a shot.

By: David

David — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:29:35 +0000

Why not unify them under the #k7 hash tag? All of the postal codes for kingston begin with that, and I don’t know that the city needs six or more hash tags, do you?