Mary Katharine Ham hams it up for the camera in her last Ham Nation video last year.
Why Mary Katharine Ham rules the Twittersphere:
That's her latest, perfectly metered haiku for the Twitter "hashtag" #pelosiku in the wake of Speaker Nancy Pelosi's recent meltdown.
"What does the # mean? Is that a special Twitter thing?" asks The Anchoress, bemused as we ourselves were till just a few hours ago when we saw #pelosiku cropping up in a series of intriguing tweets this afta. Our own blogpal Stoutcat explains:
It's something called a Twitter hashtag, as Wikipedia explains (sorta):
Got that? We do, sorta.
We ninety year olds don't have a clue. Ha! HA!
Posted by: goomp | May 15, 2009 at 07:43 PM
The hash tag allows you to search for specific threads in twitter that people have added to. So everyone getting in on a certain "conversation" adds that hash and others looking for it, can see it and possibly respond.
If you see a hash tag on a tweet and type it in the search box on the right sidebar of your twitter page - all tweets with that hash will show up. Under the search box on your twitter home page, you'll see a list of the top ten searched items - most of which are hashed.
Don't know how it's done in tweet deck, but I would guess there is a way.
The thing is - how do you find what hash tags are being used? And if you start a new tag, will others use it too... guess it depends on how influential one is in the twitterverse.
Posted by: Teresa | May 16, 2009 at 03:12 PM