[OB1kNOb]

hashtag - someone please explain this to an old goat FReeper. I monitor twitter mainly to follow some news tweets. I see a lot of @’s and #’s but don’t really know what it represents.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Can I ask a stupid question?

Of course all politicians do opposition research. But has any president ever taken what sounds like a paranoia about what is being said about them to this level?

I’ve never heard of this sort of situation before, in which the White House wants you to report what is being said about the president or Democrats.

It makes me think that this president is overly concerned about political back and forth, and overly concerned about negative things that are said about him. If he spends too much time worrying about what people are saying about him, how does he have time to do his job?

And of course his staff and campaign workers will end up spending big amounts of time simply reviewing all of this information of what people are saying about Obama, rather than doing other things.

[Christian4Bush]

hashtag - someone please explain this to an old goat FReeper. I monitor twitter mainly to follow some news tweets. I see a lot of @’s and #’s but don’t really know what it represents.

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Use “@” when you want to send a message to another Twitter user. For example: @BarackObama - where’s your REAL birth certificate? With that, you just sent a Tweet to the Dumb Bastard.

Use # to create a hashtag. With this hashtag you can look up numerous Tweets under one name (tag) for example, #attackwatch (by the way, the hashtag has no spaces. Underscores are fine but no spaces. The second you type in a space, the hashtag ends. )

Hope this helps