jackMay 20

I #do not #understand the #people who #post breaking #news and #hashtag random #words in #their post

like, the one about the IDF abducting a flotilla and used the hashtag #sister because one of the victims is the president of Ireland's sister..? why

Show threadJon WoodMay 20
@jackeric it’s completely #baffling behaviour. Not #only is it useless because #nobody is searching for those tags, it makes the post borderline #unreadable.
Show threadJon Wood
@jackeric it feels like cargo culting to me. People no longer know what hashtags were for, not least because they’re being spammed to the point of uselessness on most platforms but they see people using them and feel they must as well.
May 20 at 10:13amWeb