Please see the update at the bottom of this post 
You might have noticed that most of the tweets sent from FootyTweets/CricketTweets/RugbyTweets now have a couple of hashtags appended on the end.
What are hashtags I hear a few of you cry! Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional information to your tweets. Anyone can create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag. For instance if there is a piece of news for a football team the tweet will be appended with #football and #news. This can make it easier to search for similar items and points out the tweet contains “football news”. You can also go to search.twitter.com and simply type “football news” (without quotes). Alternatively you can go to hashtags.org and get all tweets with the tag #football etc.
For this service I have opted to use two hashtags per tweet. One for the sport and one for the type of tweet. Either #wicket, #match or #news. Below is an example from the England football feed.
Let me know what you think
Ollie
Update: We need to have a quick vote on whether you would like to have a team’s short name (for example Manchester United’s short name is #mufc) added to the end of a tweet after the other hashtags or leave the tweets with just the two, for example #rugby #news. Please vote on the poll below :).
i think it will take some getting used 2 lol
The content of the tweets are still the same except for two tags added to the end. Not too much change.
please can you explain a little more clearly avoiding the words ‘metadata’ and ‘context’?!
Just changed the wording a bit. Hope it helps
I thnit would be good of you also add the club hashtag too.
The tweet already has the clubs account so does it really need a hashtag to say that too. Too many hashtags will mean there isn’t enough room for the rest of the tweet.
What doe everyone think?
Ollie
Ollie, perhaps #football and #news is a bit generic. I would see a lot more value added when you filter down the hashtags to #spurs, #manutd, #footyscores etc.
I would need to find a small name for each team. Would initials do? Man Utd = #mufc, Reading FC = #rfc?
Ollie
I’m with Dan on this one .. sorry!
Just changed the wording a bit. Hope it helps the readability
We are a charity football club at the very beginning of its crwation last month. We are looking for clubs to join a league (5 aside football) to raise money for homeless charities. Would this be any help to use???
As long as you don’t replicate the hashtag info in the body of text, 3 should work ok and provide more granularity. Try it.
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