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To tag or not to tag; that is the question

After living with Twitter for a while, I always want to track, collect, query or bind relevance tweets together by some mechanisms. Jaiku solves this problem by introducing channel. There is no such channel in Twitter. Actually, Twitter has something far beyond channel called Hashtags. Moreover, this world has @eventtrack! Combinding @eventrack and Hashtags result as the great tool to track everything you want, not just only channel.

I guess you don't understand Hashtags yet. Let's see an example by #barcampbangkok and #BugAThon. In short, every tweets containing #barcambangkok will be included in http://hashtags.org/tag/barcampbangkok/ and #BugAThon in http://hashtags.org/tag/bugathon/. Don't forget to see in the tag page and you will see photos, videos, links and blogs relevant to these tags. Do you want to use hashtags? Follow below steps.

1. Follow hashtags in Twitter.

   follow hashtags
   

2. Add hash (#) in front of every words you think it is a tag. Note that it is case insensitive.

   hello, #bugathon
   

3. Go to http://hashtags.org/tag/TAG/ to see the result whenever you want.

   http://hashtags.org/tag/bugathon/
   

If you are too lazy to add #hashtags to every tweets, you may try @eventtrack. @eventtrack will collect every tweets no matter what it contains #hashtags or not. Using @eventtrack is a bit complicate but not too difficult.

1. If you have never followed @eventtrack, just do it!

   follow eventtrack
   

2. When the event start, tell @eventtrack about that by sending reply with start*TAG.

   @eventtrack start*BugAThon
   

3. Wait for a while until @eventtrack send a message and direct messages to inform you.

   eventtrack: New event started #BugAThon http://eventtrack.info/?t_event=BugAThon
   

   and

   Would you mind updating some info for us? passcode=1111 http://eventtrack.info/?page=main&login=event&te=BugAThon
   Now tracking you for BugAThon collective updates http://eventtrack.info/?t_event=BugAThon
   

4. If you want to edit event information, follow link in the first direct message which also contains passcode.

5. When the event is over, just simply inform @eventtrack by stop*TAG.

   @eventtrack stop*BugAThon
   

Enjoy tagging!