Tried another approach. I actually tried to start conversations with people who #ff and #ww me. Some people actually reply which was nice. That gets me and them talking. 🙂

This is one of the reasons I seriously like TweetDeck. In TweetDeck new style retweets are considered ‘duplicate tweets’ and are ignored by default. So you only see each tweet once. Removing the hashtags makes it a new tweet. So users on TweetDeck have the opposite problem from users on Twitter.

Color me curious. I know I’ve got some pet peeves with those hashtags, so hearing someone else’s opinion will be nice.

Well, I’m not a fan of hashtags. I use them in limits and only when I deem them necessary. If I want to say something on MyWANA or reply to someone there I will use the hashtag. I will use it also if I want to RT something from the people I follow, who are not in MyWANA, and I want the MyWANA team to see it.

However, when I retweet others’ tweets, I delete the hashtags most of the times.

Why? Because there is no point to flood a particular place with retweets of the same tweet, one under the other and lose other people’s tweets. And it’s not polite toward the other members too.

Let’s take MyWANA for example. Tweet A is tweeted in MyWANA and everybody present that time in MyWANA retweets it with MyWANA hashtag.
MyWANA is suddenly full of the same RT Tweet A and if somebody else says something it gets lost, because Tweet Deck column of MyWANA gets full of Tweet A RTs. I’ve seen it happened and I was interested in another tweet too, which I lost because the column rolled it down. I had to revert to the twitter.com in order to search for the particular tweet.

Not to mention that the RT will already be seen by a lot of MyWANA members, since we share connections. There is no point on flooding, Tweet A is already on #MyWANA, already RTd a couple of times on MyWANA and the nice thing to do is leave some room for other tweets.

Later, it can be RTd on #MyWANA, but not at the same time for nth times by most present in that moment. And the same goes for other hashtags.

If I see a tweet has been RTd some times on MyWANA, I delete the hashtag and RT it without the MyWANA hashtag. The same I do for other hashtags. RTing has to be considered with the same politeness rules as tweeting.

Thank you for the interesting post 🙂