Jeremy makes some interesting suggestions for Twitter, especially about supporting tags better:
Jeremy Toeman via LIVEdigitally
4. #Explain #Hashtags #Somehow
OK, so a hashtag lets people tweet about one topic, and really only seems to exist because of the brokenness of Twitter search (see above). But most of the hashtags I see make no sense, and even clicking on them doesn’t exactly “answer” the question of why they exist. How about having users “register” a hashtag for a period of time? Even if multiple users do that, it’d be fine. Then when a new user clicks on a hashtag, they can see all the “terms in use at present” to close the loop on it.
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