This Is How I Hashtag
I’ve already admitted to committing the occasional text message faux pax. But sometimes even my Instagram hashtags don’t go as planned. Take this shot from last month.
Sherry and I were watching the premiere of the new Fox show “The Following” and, like many shows involving the FBI, it supposedly takes places in Virginia (the FBI Academy is located about an hour north of us in Quantico, VA). And since the plot centers around Edgar Allen Poe’s work, I assume the show chose the Virginia setting because Poe grew up in Richmond and went to my alma mater, UVA. Despite the show’s grim storylines and gruesome scenes, Sherry and I were psyched to see our area getting some airtime. So excited that this was my original attempt at a hashtag:
Since hashtags don’t allow for spaces, my attempt to write “Boo that it’s murder related” suddenly became a string of random nouns – boot, hat, and – uh – a certain slang for the female chest area. Oops. #hashfail
So Sherry quickly nixed my hashtag attempt and we settled on the simpler (and less spacing dependent) #richmondrepresent.
Have you guys had any hashtag fails or text oops moments lately?
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Underscore is thy friend. :) #hastag_like_this #clears_up_eye_tricks
I am such a hashtag failure I don’t even try….I will say thought that I am often impressed with you all’s hashing skills….they always add that little oomph of funny to your photos and tweets!
Lol, I read it as Richmond depressant… I had to do a double take. Represent is much better. :)
Are ya ever going to return to AK? I’d love to take you out to snow city cafe if you do come. :). Nothing depressing there.
Aw we’d love to end up back there someday!
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I capitalize new words in my hashtags to try and make them a little clearer. That way I don’t have to use up character counts for underscores. #MakesThingsClearer #TooMuchTimeOnMyHands
Smart!!
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Capitalizing the first letter of every word is called Camel Case by the way (as opposed to upper or lower case) and is a common technique for creating variables in computer programming. It makes me smile every time I think about it — picturing a camel as I am writing boring code. #LoveMeSomeAnimals :)
Haha, I love it!
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YES! When I was at the book signing (Atlanta) I took a picture from outside the door, then instagram-ed it with the the hashtag #creeperstatus then an hour later I was like “WOW, that sounds weird” and deleted.
#ithappens
Hahah!
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Not a hashtag fail, but a technology fail: I occasionally use voice to text in gchat on my phone and learned that, amusingly, Google censors swear words! The problem: it misheard me and turned “shirt” into “s***” (censored exactly like that).
So yeah. My husband got the message, “I forgot to tell you earlier, your s*** has a hole in it.” Thanks, Google!
No way!!
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Hahaha. This made me laugh at work! Thanks.
LOL – I have no clue if I’m hastagging correctly or not…I just wing it and 9 times out of 10 I find it funny, and that’s all that matters, right? ;-)
When I get as big as you guys, I may put a little more effort into it. ;-)
Still laughing over the “boo…(female chest are)…..” hashtag!!! :-D
I guess it just depends on how you look at it, but I surprisingly saw ‘Boo that it’s murder related’ before looking at the explanation, so it could work!
My girlfriend and I both use the # inappropriately = #epicfail!!! Not to mention I might be the only person NOT on twitter. (I feel like an old person saying that)
I texted my sister “where are you?” and she responded with where she was and then asked why I was asking. I meant to say “I was just suprised you were so far” but I replied “I was just suprised you were so fat.” Whoops.
how about that susan boyle album launch party hashtag fail? the hashtag read #susanalbumparty. it created quite a buzz. :>
No way!!
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#CapitalizeEachWord it takes more work, but it definitely helps sometimes!
Love that tip.
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I have been trying to google stalk the filming locations for The Following. The Matthews residence looks familiar, but I’m not entirely certain that ANY of the show is actually filmed in RVA. But like you, loving that RVA is getting some mainstream love, even if it is about a killer (not nearly as awesome as Dexter, I might add).
ha ha ha! I’m a little late to jump on the hashtag wagon, so I haven’t had any crazy ones (that I know of!) yet. Maybe I need to find someone to be my hashtag editor, though, just to be safe…
Hah – I frequently have to double check my hash tags to make sure I didn’t create something too crazy looking…it’s hilarious how strange words can end up looking when you smash them all together!
omg – what reny said – I’ve been laughing/crying for 5 minutes now!
somehow this all reminds me of the commercials for the litter box scoop called “catch it” and the teddy bear shaped seat belt padding called “tiddy bear”. You can find them easily on youtube, it’s worth a look… I really can’t believe these actually went into production – and were produced to completion – if I would have been on the crew I would not have been able to stop laughing!!
Thanks for the giggle!
Hahaha, oh yeah that’s hilarious!
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This has nothing to do with #hashtagging, but I want to know how you can watch that show and not be up all night with nightmares?!?!
My husband is really into the show and I have watched too… but I told him, “If this was set in Portland (where we live) there is NO WAY I could watch it and sleep well. I bet this show gets really low ratings in Richmond, or in all of Virginia for that matter.”
My marketing/branding friend posted about the new Weight Watchers logo – all one lowercase word.
weightwatchers
Hrm.