East Dulwch info on Twitter

[5imon]

Hello all.

any Twitter users out there?

If so, I'd like to propose the #eastdulwichforum tag for all local news, info, event-based tweets etc.

cheers

 

[Laurie Eggleston]

5imon,

Great idea. Only I'd suggest using #EDF instead? Those 140 characters are very unforgiving!

What's your twitter ID? I'm Laurie1984.

Laurie

[5imon]

good thinking, though there appears to be some sort of french power company who's already snaffled that hashtag.

shall we split the difference and say #edulwichforum?

i'm inglethorpe, btw.

[annaj]

Hi 5imon

You might want to run it by Admin before you use the East Dulwich Forum name elsewhere.

This came up recently, before the big forum shut down, as you can see here

[5imon]

hmm...i'd be surprised if 'east dulwich forum' had been copywritten (is that a word?).

still, lest i incur admin wrath, how about a nice and simple

#edulwich or #eastdulwich instead?

so to the twitterverse: if you're tweeting about local issues, observations, events, anything to do with e dulwich at all, please use hashtags above.

[matthew123]

how about #se22 - not that i have ever used, or intend to use, twitter

[annaj]

I wasn't suggesting it was a matter of legality, 5imon, more of courtesy, but I think any of the suggested compromises would work just fine.

[*Bob*]

The Forum of East Dulwich?

The East Dulwich Popular Forum?

Splitters.

[annaj]

I'm not oppressing you *Bob*....

[*Bob*]

I'm looking forward to the Twitter page.

Increased opportunities for stalking are always welcome.

[5imon]

thanks. and from now on, i want you to call me loretta.

[Ted Max]

You're in Hawaii, 5imon?

[*Bob*]

Whatever it's called, let's hope it can be as roaring a success as the East Dulwich Info Exchange was on Facebook.

[*Bob*]

Ted Max Wrote:

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> You're in Hawaii, 5imon?

He's developed a lisp.

[thebestnameshavegone]

You can use #eastdulwichforum as a hashtag on Twitter, and there's not much a megalomanic admin can do about it, fact fans, seeing as it's essentially as transient as a sand-painting / yesterday's chip papers.

whilst there may be an intellectual property issue on something like Facebook (and good luck contesting that legally, anyway), hastagging doesn't actually create a 'destination' as such.

[SeanMacGabhann]

nice attitooode

[thebestnameshavegone]

we're not dealing with Coca Cola here

Anyway, it was a genuine observation on a point up there. do you have a problem with that?

[SeanMacGabhann]

it needs a global brand name for you to think "hey if I had spent 3 years building up a name and a presence on;y for it to have some control assumed by someone who has been registered for 2 days! I'd be a teeny bit cross"???

Why?

If the name means so little to you, pick another one

[Ted Max]

It's just a hashtag on Twitter. I can't see it's a big deal for Admin. The Facebook example was because someone was going to set up, to all intents and purposes, a replacement Forum - and I can see that Admin would have an issue with that, in case his sponsors and local companies etc thought it was to do with him.

A hastag on Twitter just aggregates posts around a common theme. It may even drive traffic to the Forum, which is presumably good for Admin/Mark.

[thebestnameshavegone]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> it needs a global brand name for you to think "hey

> if I had spent 3 years building up a name and a

> presence on;y for it to have some control assumed

> by someone who has been registered for 2 days! I'd

> be a teeny bit cross"???

>

> Why?

>

> If the name means so little to you, pick another

> one

I'm just saying that you just aren't able to 'control' Twitter like that - to think you can is missing its point entirely.

I'm not suggesting someone set up another EDF full of hateful bile, I'm talking about Twitter hashtags specifically.

Seems overly-precious.

The 'tone' of this place is a melting pot of the useful and handy through to the irrelevant, mininformed and downright stupid - there's hardly a 'brand' to ruin is there, given that it is made up of about 8,000 different opinions.

[????]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> Whatever it's called, let's hope it can be as

> roaring a success as the East Dulwich Info

> Exchange was on Facebook.

Come on *Bob* it moved quicker than the Drawing Room

[Mark]

I'm assuming the East Dulwich and/or SE22 tag is being used already?

[Ted Max]

There are no updates with an SE22 tag. There are two for Edulwichforum (one update from 5imon, one from Laurie) and one for EastDulwich (Laurie).

People tag company and brand names all the time. How can it be an issue?

[annaj]

Hey, don't dis the Drawing Room, Quids.

Right now there's an in depth discussion of the morality and ethics of robot porn going on.

And, as I've already said, I wasn't suggesting there was any legal issue with using the forum's name, just that is might be a courtesy to run it by admin.

Why so angry thebestnameshavegone?

[Laurie Eggleston]

It's not an issue! Hash tags usually emerge from the zeitgeist on their own and people tend to settle on one. I think 5imon was just trying to suggest a common one now to speed things up. #eastdulwich is probably the most straightforward, when tweeting about East Dulwich.