Texan_Reverend
For anybody who's seen hashtagging advice and been unsure of the difference:
#PascalCase capitalizes each word,
#camelCase only capitalizes the words after the first, which makes the caps in the middle look like humps of a camel.
Both options work well for making hashtags more legible to screen readers and neurodivergent/dyslexic users. However, I tend to recommend PascalCase, because it's easier to tell people, "It just means capitalizing each word in your hashtags for broader accessibility."
Jul 18, 2023 at 9:49pmWeb
Show threadrobJul 18, 2023
@Texan_Reverend all excellent advice. On my timeline, ironically, next to a post which illustrates what happens if you get it wrong #USputsOilB4Food which is going to be read "You sputs oil ..."
Show threadMagical Attack GeckoJul 18, 2023
@Texan_Reverend #IGetEmotionalAboutTypography
Show threadLinzingtonJul 18, 2023
@Texan_Reverend I have been wondering, thank you!
Show threadLachlan HJul 18, 2023
@Texan_Reverend I honestly think HashTagingLikeThis makes easier for everyone thanks for encouraging it.
Kind social has caused me to think more about accessibility when I post and that's great.
Show threadwarboss5Jul 18, 2023
@Texan_Reverend PascalCase all the way! One of my biggest pet peeves on Twitter was always when a popular hashtag got taken over by people who didn't capitalize anything, so the autofill didn't either. I felt like Sean Connery staring at Jeopardy categories.
#analbumcover #thepenismightier #japanusrelations #catchthesemen #letitsnow
Show threadKyle Brown Jul 18, 2023
@Texan_Reverend #PascalCase being named after the Pascal programming language
Show threadAmbient SpongeJul 18, 2023
@Texan_Reverend As a writer I hate committing the grammar crime of having the first word not be a capital in multi-word hashtags.
Show thread[⊨-144254][T-01-03-120] "Naya"Jul 19, 2023
@Texan_Reverend fun fact #snake_case (using underscores instead of spaces) is not used in hashtags but in programing and is called that bc of the programming language python. It's my least favourite all one word convention T-T
Show threadthe people's evaJul 19, 2023
@Texan_Reverend very key distinction. Thanks for this!
Show threadL'andrewJul 19, 2023
@Texan_Reverend I had never (until your post - thanks!) actually considered the difference between PascalCase and camelCase. I guess that's somewhat like squareShaped vs RectangleShaped vs quadrilateralshaped.