Tag Archives: slashtags

Clarifying a few things about Twitter typographics like hashtags and slashtags

Dec 14th – 12pm

Prompted by a post by Karl Long and Aral Balkan’s new Twitterformats initiative, I wanted to clarify a few about hashtags and slashtags — at least as I see them. First: Stowe Boyd deserves credit for Microsyntax. I just pitched in in the beginning and use the wiki to document some ideas I’ve had. I didn’t [...]

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New microsyntax for Twitter: three pointers and the slasher

Nov 8th – 4pm

Image based on Kevin Van Aelst’s original. Update: These basic “tags” have been christened “slashtags” by Chris Blow. They are also now supported in Atebit’s popular Twitter client Tweetie 2 on the iPhone. Since it’s apparently all the rage to design your own features for Twitter now, I figured I’d build on my success with [...]

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