Proposal For A Virtualization Multi Purpose Twitter Hash Tag – #V12N
April 20th, 2009 | 
Author: This post is my proposal for the need to use a common Twitter hash tag that can be used both now and in the future by the virtualization community. My proposal is to adopt #v12n as our tag. Let’s use it for events, news, or even when something interesting enough to to discuss as a huge group happens. If you did not know, v12n is sort of an acronym for virtualization: there are 12 letters between the “v” and the “n”. If we all start using this tag as a common denominator when appropriate we can track full conversations more easily (in Tweetdeck, Tweetgrid, or Search.twitter.com for example) and group broader amounts of information and reactions when searching. Our tweets can also be trended and ranked on sites like hashtags.org.
The following comment on my Ideas For Keeping Up With The VMware Launch Event On April 21 post earlier today explains my main argument for this need. The conversation was about using “vSphere” as a tag. Check it out and let me know what you think.
“… here is my thoughts on search and hash tags.
I think they are great but still largely misunderstood as a search tool when really they are better for sending tweets.
For example, if I send a tweet
“vSphere rocks!”
And you reply
“@rbrambley bang your head, dude!”
I did not need to use vSphere as a hash tag to find it later, but you did and did not use it because it was awkward. This is common. So if we want to search “vSphere” my tweet is discovered but the replies are not.
So, I agree with using a common hash tag for the event. That not only makes it easier to track the entire conversation, but it also registers, tallies, and trends our event tweets globally under a single tag. VSphere is the best obvious tag, but personally I like 3 to 4 letter hash tags (makes 5 characters with the #) to allow for larger tweets and RTs.
I’ve suggested #421 and #VMW yesterday on Twitter. Maybe we should use #v12n? In fact that ties the virtualization community better for now and all future tweets about anything or any event.”
Maybe I’m over analyzing it? What do you think?
Originally posted as a comment by rbrambley on vm /etc using Disqus.
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