EWBC’ers @Twitter – Please Use a # with Relevant Tweets

Ok, now that I reread that headline, I have to laugh. It looks like a foreign language, and in all reality, it is. And some of you will get the odd characters and overall meaning, while others…not so much.

But what should you derive from this bizarre headline? Get on Twitter!! And, if you are on Twitter and you want to talk about the EWBC (European Wine Bloggers Conference), add a hashtag!

Example of a Tweet on Twitter:

European Wine Blogger Conference announced for Lisbon, Portugal #EWBC

Hashtags (words on Twitter beginning with #) are temporal and relate to a event based on time. We use hashtags to easily categorize information so that we may search for it quickly and easily.

What Hashtag Should be Used for the EWBC on Twitter?

The issue being, there are a wide range of options of how we can categorize information related to the EWBC on Twitter, but it’s best if we all agree on one. So rather than have the hashtag related to a year (ex. #EWBC 2009), whereby splitting up information over the course of time, we propose using #EWBC for all of our tweets related to the event.

What do you think? Mind you, it’s best that we choose are strategy now before we get too far into planning everything! Plus, the sidebar to the left is displaying all the latest #EWBC tweets that go out.

And if you’re still completely confused about hashtags, read this: http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Hashtags