Twitter inspired endzone

[NAHSTE]

I just think it's tacky for a football program to whore themselves out to social media like that. Disappointed in our conference partner.

[FedEx227]

I completely disagree (and I don't want a ZB vs FT situation). First off if you don't like the "HEY TWEET THIS" then unfollow anyone who does it... You'll never see it. If you see a hash tag on tv and you don't like it then big whoop, just don't search for it on twitter. And the hashtags for events is fun for two reasons: 1) If it's something you really like it's cool to see what other people are saying about it and can sometimes be funny or actually educational. 2) If it's something you hate and you're a normal VSD'er you can haze anyone using a hashtag like #hailstate

I agree it's fun. I'm on it all day whether at work or at home. It's an awesome, awesome tool...

But at it's core it was created and meant to be a user-driven product.

If companies and organizations tell people "Hey, here's the hashtag for this event, use this" it lessens the impact individuals have and puts all the power into companies. It's great to have a hashtag for an event, but many times a few users will create one and people will build off that, that's when it works best. #FirstWorldProblems wasn't created by a company, it was groups of people using it and eventually it blossomed into something with millions of Tweets a day. That's the beauty of a user-driven product like Twitter.

I understand why a company or a football team would try and get people to use a particular hashtag or why some companies sponsor and pay a lot of money to promote their hashtags, I've done it at the university plenty of times.

I just think having it so much out in the open and forced will over time cause overexposure and must like Facebook or MySpace people will begin backing off because they feel it's so initiated with companies/organizations driving the car as opposed to users.

[Bomberooski]

I agree it's fun. I'm on it all day whether at work or at home. It's an awesome, awesome tool...

But at it's core it was created and meant to be a user-driven product.

If companies and organizations tell people "Hey, here's the hashtag for this event, use this" it lessens the impact individuals have and puts all the power into companies. It's great to have a hashtag for an event, but many times a few users will create one and people will build off that, that's when it works best. #FirstWorldProblems wasn't created by a company, it was groups of people using it and eventually it blossomed into something with millions of Tweets a day. That's the beauty of a user-driven product like Twitter.

I understand why a company or a football team would try and get people to use a particular hashtag or why some companies sponsor and pay a lot of money to promote their hashtags, I've done it at the university plenty of times.

I just think having it so much out in the open and forced will over time cause overexposure and must like Facebook or MySpace people will begin backing off because they feel it's so initiated with companies/organizations driving the car as opposed to users.

Very fair points. I still believe that they are easily avoided but that could just be me personally.

Now, tits or GTFO.

[FedEx227]

#GiveMeTheTitties

[RosettaStoned]

ITT the man is holding people down via twitter.


I hate some of you people.

[Bomberooski]

I hate some of you people.

/core

[Hasselbeck]

Stupid but it'll get people talking about an otherwise shitty matchup.. so in that respect it's pretty smart.