Comments on: TWITTER: Choosing the #RIGHT Hashtag for Your Conservative Tweets

By: Terrence

Terrence — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:04:54 +0000

#whloves a new one I found

By: Scott W. Graves

Scott W. Graves — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:25:38 +0000

The focus of the post was to outline why I thought #RIGHT was preferable to #TCOT. I specifically wanted to avoid commenting on the drama and the personalities surrounding the “founding” of #TCOT.

The proliferation of Twitter will naturally lead to the proliferation of additional, more geographically or topic-specific hashtags. However, I believe #RIGHT can be used when a tweet is intended for a broad audience receptive to ideas from the right side of the political spectrum. I also really like the fact that #RIGHT works well with #LEFT (and/or #WRONG).

I would fully expect people to combine tags to reach their target audiences. For example, someone who tweets a link to an article by a California Republican congressman about the topic of limited government, might use #RIGHT and #CAGOP.

Personally, I like:

#RIGHT: Broad spectrum of right-of-center political ideas
#GOP: Republican politics
#ICON: Independent conservative

More specific hashtags would include:

#TEAPARTY: Tea party movement
#SGP: Smart girl politics
#TCOT: Top conservatives on Twitter
#TLOT: Top libertarians on Twitter
#HHRS: Hugh Hewitt Radio Show

etc., etc…

By: daltonsbriefs

daltonsbriefs — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:20:34 +0000

I would agree that #tcot has so many posts it’s hard to keep up … but I think the push will be toward more geographic and topic specific and away from catch all tags like #right or #teaparty.

One good thing about #tcot was that 5,000 of us found each other. I will disagree a bit on the “founder” status, of course you and I both know that Michael Leahy came up with the idea and Rob added the tech to make it work. Call them co-founders, but to discount Mike is a bit hypocritical