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Corralling and TAG Branding #Western106 Tweets

Me: Holy frijole! (slaps head)

I’ve been yawing and yammering out in Twitter Land with the #western106 hashtag and plum forgot to set up a corral collectin’ pen with the Twitter TAGS Tool by Martin Hawksey (Honarary Scottish Techno Cowboy).

Because heck yeah, long before Silicon Cowfolks like the Jack Dorsey Gang, putting our ranch mark on the stuff we move has been a fixture of the western way. That’s right, usin’ a hashtag is like usin; a brandin’ iron without the stench of burnt flesh.

And the Twitter TAGS Worksheet that Martinn’s tool provides is the pen where we round up them wandering herd of tweets. Now in place we got attached to this site’s navigatin’ menu:

New ds106 tricks menu thangs

• Twitter Summary
• Twitter Dashboard
• Searchable Archive
• Conversations Explorer

Me, I am not fond of gazin’ at little boxes of numbers, I like the visuals, so like the stars in open western sky, I like seeing the constellation of twitter active from the Conversation Explorer, it’s just startin’ out.

Twitter Talkin’ as of January 8, 2016

Dern, I forgotten my own advice to ALWAYS make a Twitter Tags sheet when starting a new hashtag drive.