If you are active on twitter you may have noticed people increasingly adding hash tags to tweets that upon investigation turn out to be nothing more than a humorous attempt to contextualise their preceding message.
Or in other words they make them up to try and look clever.
I’m guilty of them as well and I’ve dubbed them ‘trash tags’ – rubbish/fictitious #’s that no-one else in the twittersphere is actually using and were never intended to be used by others in the first place.
That got me thinking about other types of tagging and as a result I’ve written what I believe is the first ever lexicon of hash tagging. And even if it isn’t, I’m confident you will all recognise some of the tag behaviour outlined below.
- Rash Tag – used in a tweet sent while in a highly emotional state (often later regretted)
- Flash Tag – describing the fantastic/amazing/stupendous thing you are doing at some exotic or exclusive location
- Hash-But- Fair - negative tweeting, but with reasonable basis for doing so
- Cash Tag – shameless plugging of a commercial product or service
- ‘Tache Tag – bizarre or irrelevant statements of intent (e.g. I’m thinking of growing a moustache)
- Crash Tag - failed attempt to establish a genuine hash tag that other people begin to use
- Hash-Brown Tag – telling an uninterested world what you’ve just had for breakfast
- Thrash Tag – brutal, aggressive tweet that puts the boot in on something or someone
- Out-On-The-Lash Tag – a consequence of tweeting while extremely drunk
- Dash Tag – a tweet under pressure, at haste or on the run
- Bash Tag – similar in principle to Thrash Tag, but less toxic
- Hash-Flagging – seeing twitter references to a once hot topic begin to gradually decline (e.g. “Well it was trending – but now it’s hash flagging” )
- Mash Tag – confused/mixed up tweeting resulting in wrong tag being added to wrong message
- Tagonistic – trying to start an argument over twitter just for the hell of it
- Ash Tag – used on tweets about disrupted travel plans or other pointless transport updates
- Brash Tag - bolshy, boorish, loud and egotistical (which I guess sums up 99.9% of all tweets anyhow)
Please feel free to contribute more via the comments box – and nominations of any well known purveyors of any (or all) of the above are, of course, welcome.
