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Twitter hash tags, the weather, and a proposal
 /  Tuesday, June 23, 2009 9:08:34 AM  /  View Comments  / 
posted by Kevin
One of the great things about the Twitter community is the adoption of using hash tags to help define topics. Hash tags are those often cryptic looking short words with a # in front of them. During the last winter weather outbreak here in Oklahoma these tags were most useful in tracking where the blizzard has blowing in, and how road conditions were in that area (See: Tracking the Blizzard on Twitter #okice).

Two hash tags were suggested during this time, and for the most part used by Oklahomans on Twitter. The first was #okice to help track ice/snow storms. Then came #okstorm to track thunderstorms. Of course these two hash tags weren't universally adopted. As example many would use #oksnow for blizzards instead of #okice, and often people would add s to the end of storm. There were even arguments about it if you could imagine. Still even with the multiple hash tags in use it was very simple to roll them all together to get a picture of Oklahoma severe weather.

I began to think what other hash tags could be developed to help track other Oklahoma weather or events? I'm also thinking, why not put together a useful guide for these.

Here's a list of the ones I've seen and a few I'm suggesting. All include OK at the first to designate Oklahoma. If you would like to use these for your state, just use your postal code. TX, KS, AR... So what would be your suggestions? Would love to hear from all of you Oklahoma Emergency Services on Twitter on what you would like to use. Maybe we can get a nice list compiled and make it available as a notecard style download for everyone.

Update 6/25/09:
I put together couple of PDFs for you today. I have both a note card and business card style lists:

note card size | business card size

Hope you find them useful.

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