Proposing a “Question” Hashtag for Twitter
Jun 27, 2009 Social Networking Online
I’ve mentioned this idea a few times in my posts, and after having coffee with @freshleafdesign yesterday I have decided to put it out there in a bigger way. Let’s make this work – it’s going to be so cool!
Here’s the idea:
If you have a question – for example I am looking for good information on the demographics of who’s using Twitter (or perhaps you need a good margarita recipe) – there needs to be an easy way for anyone in the whole Twittersphere to respond to our questions (not just followers) – hence the proposal of the question hashtag.
The beauty of this concept is that any time you have some spare time and want to help out the masses of people who have questions they want answered, you can search for #question (and maybe it will become a constant trending topic!) and see if there are any questions you have answers for. I think it will be a really neat way to interact with others and doing a good deed everyday.
Please ReTweet this idea widely so that it catches on like wildfire! 
Start posting questions!
LONG LIVE THE #question hashtag
PS – I tried #? as the hashtag (to be short and sweet) and it seems that it won’t work – you seem to need letters after the # for it to work properly.
June 28th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
The ? after the # would be for the same reason they leave all the punctuation out on Twitter when using names and hashtags.
For example:
I sure like @tpholmes!
or
Who else is using #Facebook?
You wouldn’t want the ? or ! or . to become part of the hashtag or name.
June 28th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Yes, I figured it was something like that. I guess that’s a good thing – makes things much more simple. Twitter seems to like to K.I.S.S.
June 28th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
I think it’s a great idea! I use it in my posts a lot, hoping to get answers from people searching for the #question hash tag.
June 28th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
This is a great idea? I will try to remember to start using this.
Mike D. Merrill
Chief Bacon Maker and Marketing Strategist at Bacon Marketing
@mikedmerrill
July 1st, 2009 at 11:07 pm
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