Hastags

Finalised Twitter hashtags for Election (#AE11) constituencies

Mick Fealty on March 29, 2011, 5:18 pm | Readers 7

Okay, a big thanks to Dee Harvey at BBCNI for her work on these. She’s tested them all now so that there should not be any broken or misleading tweets on the constituency hashtags quoted below. If you are now scratching your heading and asking yourself ‘what’s Fealty on about now’, hashtags are a way of tagging individual ‘tweets’ that instantly transform into searchable terms. It should enable us/you to find tweeted information/data on Twitter than relates to a given …

Constitutency Hashtags for #AE11?

Mick Fealty on March 23, 2011, 10:23 am | Readers 12

When it comes to the Assembly elections it will be useful to have appropriate hashtags for Twitter. Some already write themselves. Fermanagh South Tyrone is already shorthanded to #FST, though it could probably bear some testing to see there’s no obvious replications. Here’s a list of opening suggestions. If you object to any of them, please offer an alternative: North Belfast – #NBel South Belfast – #SBel West Belfast – #WBel East Belfast – #EBel North Down – #NDown South …