Twitter inspired endzone

[Sharkweather]

Mississippi State's endzone for the Egg Bowl this weekend.

 

[NAHSTE]

Awful.

 

[FedEx227]

I love Twitter but man it's starting to get way too overexposed.

 

[Woy]

#awfulidea

 

[Bomberooski]

I love Twitter but man it's starting to get way too overexposed.

How so?? The only way you're finding those hashtags is if you search them out on Twitter or if you're just a Twitter whore and follow a bunch of people just to try to gain followers.

As long as you keep the list of people you follow under control you should be golden.

Plus the hash tag idea is awesome if it's a subject you're looking to follow. If not you are never forced to look at it by Twitter.

 

[Bomberooski]

That said, that endzone is stupid.

 

[Rush]

How so?? The only way you're finding those hashtags is if you search them out on Twitter or if you're just a Twitter whore and follow a bunch of people just to try to gain followers.

As long as you keep the list of people you follow under control you should be golden.

Plus the hash tag idea is awesome if it's a subject you're looking to follow. If not you are never forced to look at it by Twitter.

The idea is already ruined by people tweeting #hailstate is a stupid fucking idea lol.

 

[killgod]

#failstate

 

[FedEx227]

And that's it. It's meant to be organic. Twitter is built off of organic market. When you say "HEY TWEET THIS NOW!" it completely loses its luster and becomes counterproductive.

I have absolutely nothing against Twitter, it's awesome. It's a great tool. It's 1/3 of my job, so I can't really hate it.

But when companies and organizations throw hashtags in your face, it's no longer organic and just forced. That's not what Twitter should be for. Especially when there's not monetary benefits. Watch an episode of WWE Monday Night Raw to see how to force people into hating Twitter. They spend the entire show telling you what's trending, what you should Tweet, who you should follow, etc.

Also as Rush mentioned you bring the negative with the positive too. If you're okay with people reading "Wow #Hailstate is really fucking gay" along with the "Go #Hailstate" then that's fine.

 

[RosettaStoned]

I think it's cool.

 

[RosettaStoned]

But when companies and organizations throw hashtags in your face, it's no longer organic and just forced.

Since when is social media organic and not forced??

 

[FedEx227]

Um... well the entire creation of Twitter for one.

 

[RosettaStoned]

Um... well the entire creation of Twitter for one.

:facepalm:

 

[FedEx227]

Okay senser.

 

[Bomberooski]

And that's it. It's meant to be organic. Twitter is built off of organic market. When you say "HEY TWEET THIS NOW!" it completely loses its luster and becomes counterproductive.

I have absolutely nothing against Twitter, it's awesome. It's a great tool. It's 1/3 of my job, so I can't really hate it.

But when companies and organizations throw hashtags in your face, it's no longer organic and just forced. That's not what Twitter should be for. Especially when there's not monetary benefits. Watch an episode of WWE Monday Night Raw to see how to force people into hating Twitter. They spend the entire show telling you what's trending, what you should Tweet, who you should follow, etc.

Also as Rush mentioned you bring the negative with the positive too. If you're okay with people reading "Wow #Hailstate is really fucking gay" along with the "Go #Hailstate" then that's fine.

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

 

[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.