Hashtag about a world without Twitter is trending… on Twitter

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If we’re being honest, tweeting about what the world would be like without Twitter is peak 2019. And, yet, here we are, with #InAWorldWithoutTwitter trending on an early Spring Saturday.

The tweets are a mix of genuine and jokes yet most of them all hold a grain of truth in them and reveal the best and worst of Twitter as a platform.

#InAWorldWithNoTwitter we’d have no covfefe
No hamberders
No smocking guns
No unpresidented
No Scott Free
No wire tapp
No Melanie
No Councel

But we’d still have Tim Applepic.twitter.com/aDz8B4k5Qz

— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) March 23, 2019

People would use there, there or they’re incorrectly their entire lives#InAWorldWithNoTwitter

— Jesse Lifson (@DoYouEvenLIf) March 23, 2019 Read more…

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What’s in a hashtag? A spark for our passions, in love and in war

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I found love in a hopeless place. Yeah, some would argue that a Twitter hashtag is something terrible. They can be manipulated by bots and trolls (#ReleaseTheMemo). They can be hijacked by angry users (#TellingItLikeItIs). They can be just all around strange (#KanyesAnalPlaylist). 

The hashtag’s intended purpose — what Chris Messina pitched to Twitter in 2007 — was to bring people together. They do, my relationship being a case in point. I won’t bore you with all of the details, but TL;DR TechCrunch’s annual conference uses the hashtag #TCDisrupt and including those 10 characters in a tweet is how I met my friend turned significant other.  Read more…

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