How to create a Twitter hashtag for an event

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Twitter is definitely a very important tool for educators in the 21st Century. I have learned SO MUCH from fellow educators via Twitter, and if anyone asks me for my no. 1 website I always say Twitter! </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So, let’s say you want to create a hashtag for an event. This tag will group all the tweets about the same event together. This would then enable people to follow your event quite easily (and I’ll explain how afterwards). </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1. You can just make up your own hashtag for your own event. e.g. #ELEL. Write a message with that hashtag into the place where you compose your tweets. You’ll see it come up in your Twitter feed!</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5-sEfdZXiKWmFvPm2Q3MNWH80vu_q2rHZGF3y2hQ3rgUTkDNFhLl1WAjqfg2t0JCUA1FLjBz943_bW39aohlOeeDWUA-E6eqfvrfAM635EKYg4iJfhBytSL91iK_a7gZ5y2sFYhoWJLQ/s1600-h/image%25255B10%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4fC4QZu-r6KFRXfG6AIdT6mFPB4Ms-j-Pk_9OUDV9E8P4mFCXnb4kwN48FklekMSTDv0BzZXtnHUOmwbGXEz95arsDBe0_JBooIpaKxjva3LOyl8kNKNMlnhgsCCmAZ7i8jiCs28JVg4/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="242" /> </a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-2Ttvz7_3yJmcxsverapPXyKg5qdnXswkpCw-tJh3Fp6W3LwskEbrwfdOD4JgDhdsLw8Y8lzEnMzThz7rpYgSH8VhoJx-9zm2OSac0sPgMeE5_6ie6kXnpkWBijTZx6bZdPLvDa00duE/s1600-h/image%25255B3%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="55" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXQ-GfomB92G7Y-VkHiy53h5GhNJbzA_68MH_bPzqLtFEFgnRaTY9IohvZe-rTzcPiWALRyhRZymphzf9-0Y97MpyS9BHwYn15ebEBRvFrEHHkHuuBtckWmY6kAU4FumSH7_XlCKkORlQ/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="242" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2. Notify others that you have this hashtag via Twitter and so your hashtag is borne! Note that you will have to write in it every couple of days or it will disappear and you will have to start from scratch. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. Every time you want to add a tweet about the event you created, you simply write your tweet as normal but add the hashtag afterwards. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>How to read your list of tweets in that hashtag</b></span> </div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">I would suggest two things here: </span><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1. Install Tweetdeck on your computer (<a href="http://www.tweetdeck.com/">http://www.tweetdeck.com/</a>).. This will enable you to add as many columns as you like, including your hashtag column.  I do this all the time – work from Tweetdeck instead of working from Twitter. These are all the different columns – you can hav as many or as few as you like.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAOsWzDqXzRrc1FlxWvJ7anRoum1kcI6gSPA1TjGWYseOtNuHWgEEoit19vPD5SqdX6qupGBvUIkkLWlhyphenhyphenhG9CXIutPtuG6REtqNAa2lzfu_9cmOV5vYv-FlEwsZ6xfI8g74JmCLUu2S0/s1600-h/image%25255B13%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqE5HRD_TrqRGkz4uHkGl4mvcoCUtJwM0alLAY60TnJhFGHh5nVRgNnDegnVaIvatEaGi3ArVZlI2c7W2mAqueyQmz47dVTlZBoHcP6NeeYuYFEkB0cnWlwZuEkd5SI0nkyZPhNKszLlI/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="244" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">For more details on using Tweetdeck I have written a comprehensive post about it:<br /><a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2012/03/why-not-install-and-use-tweetdeck-for.html" title="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2012/03/why-not-install-and-use-tweetdeck-for.html">http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2012/03/why-not-install-and-use-tweetdeck-for.html</a></span><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />2. The other application is totally web-based and that is Tweetchat</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The best application for following a twitter chat is Tweetchat. (<a href="http://tweetchat.com/">http://tweetchat.com</a>.) What you would do at an event that you are actually tweeting at – open Tweetchat, type in your hashtag and all the hashtags from that event appear. After that you just tweet in this application and you don’t have to add the hashtag each time.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Here is a screenshot of our <i>#edchatsa</i> chat that took place last night. I used Tweetchat to follow the event.</span><a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2012/07/30-days-of-web-tools-day-7-use.html" title="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2012/07/30-days-of-web-tools-day-7-use.html"> http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2012/07/30-days-of-web-tools-day-7-use.html</a><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJI3Q0mIJI4qhGZJnu3Mf2wtwwUMkUAHyf-Cl01Zso8V8A2W7NAvKwrzwSo6p4RHDg9BRm1mCi7z6B454bRjossjU2jKpmoiT224x3F5hcWd5HGuH4VrA-jbsFD229Z2LuNHl4TudDpS0/s1600-h/image%25255B17%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix71XhSt46T8J50lWUR0W7l4MrGzo1Z4KsBKR-Fm3SlUWorDzgmXVZxuSUwU61aGirT45bEkRP0eTpZOpS7xI5QhBQwmpJ5GEqtr8hYL78SUbW6NGRz_c_3_COqtj7vKURLKyqDVOxr-4/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="242" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This particular hashtag #edchatsa has now become a means of conversation and passing on information daily. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Other ways of findng your hashtag</span></b></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In Google ask for <i>search Twitter.com</i> and it will take you to twitter search. Type in your hashtag and all the tweets will appear. </span><span style="font-size: small;">However this won’t enable you to respond unfortunately. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtQynriVM_bkjyt-5huo9PPMwFUIbGAEsPtnEHAhPMMT0rDQBEMAptS2Zpqk6t21BzX9Yf2zfXHjmhuld35E8UvP4Lwc5IAhr5nbKQgR_sACPSceK6sUYxcFf9PgRPcoXC51h91_QMiXc/s1600-h/image%25255B21%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="95" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioFL7tOFRLejIxcqDgnoSTxxIi4Dz8keUsSOEf586VHTuVsrUGq_fBpKmLKui89gyXhTUIecdnxQZwzRXrgD6l796R3sRx_EPaa0nzLtNiAzWqdlGiqch4RC9qK2K8KktsG0orWw-UpjA/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="242" /> </a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiArEdH4bdedImCvy-Cm3h_WwC2c5e4bA3mjNhjxh-aTgKdj040G45VNTQjoiyV3gNDCkIkwKYlQryzTpS9LmEvDB6GjoBbNOyybEvvEvVWZ6YdzF6FlG-VqIRftI3qMPnK-rZlYG9wDk/s1600-h/image%25255B25%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisG1xMnLph2Tz01FTBaokUm97yTY5PwfIAO0WheuacnOBBliolfsI_IegubS2RKpK-q5daD6NG2R-AdvUPX2JXR2OsvcIDeMiY_FjuF7HhJIXpFZA6AC-TypLq4us2gk28xfOs1t3eESU/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="242" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: small;"></span><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Well, next time you have an event happening, try to create a Twitter hashtag!</span></div></div>

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