Do you think that using Twitter hashtags helps your tweets be found, or do you think that they are becoming a waste of time and effort? I’m leaning towards the latter as I’m noticing things like the term #nascar is no longer needed, as NASCAR itself will do just fine when it comes to trending topics. (As one example.)
During the Super Bowl I was trying to figure out the best hashtag to use and found out just how ill-defined the use of Twitter hashtags are. No one controls them so there’s no centralized focus. Then I started wondering just how useful are hashtags if there’s as many different hashtag as there are Twitter users for the same subject?
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Twitter hashtags are how people mark their tweets sent out on Twitter. It’s a sort of keyword system that seems to stem from a blogger’s mentality to earmark what a tweet is about.
Initially, hashtags were used as a search function aid. But they’re slowly losing any real meaning, for the most part. For example, if I write that my “car exploded when starting it,” and append my tweet with a #fail, seems, well, like stating the obvious.
Sure, the tags can be useful. When a TV show puts their hashtag up on the screen when the show is on, at least that solidifies all the users use of a common tag. Or when a business might suggest their name as a hashtag, so be it.
But when left to their own devices, hashtag usefulness is wasted on the medium because so many make them up as they go along. Or so it would seem.
I have seen all the Super Bowl ads, and I’m definitely not looking for all the ads in the list I put up a few weeks back… BUt I hope $7/minute is worth it for the advertisers!
Of the collective, these two ads actually triggers a LOL response. The others might be funny, but they seemed to go on for too long and lost their umph with me.
Check out the ads… were funny enough for me that I thought I’d post them..
Today I looked into what happens to the shirts and hats for the losing team of the Super Bowl. Check out what I found out…
In this day and age, nothing is sacred. The internet makes sure of that. But still, there seem to be some things that defy the ineptitude of trust and greediness of shallow souls that astounds even myself.
Today I sit and ponder, that no matter what precautions are taken, things get out in the “wild” of the internet and the world. Trusted studio personnel sit in the glow of the glamor of releasing a movie script or movie itself, disregarding the trust put in them by their bosses. Folks sneak into movie theaters to make bootleg tapes and then brag about it while posting them on YouTube. Folks somehow manage to think that it’s perfectly O.K. to watch a stolen movie online.
Whatever.
What astounds me is that through the years, I have never once ever encountered the T-shirts, hats or other product of the Super Bowl’s losing team.
Now maybe I’ve just missed the event or don’t remember. (You know what they say the first thing to go is!) But seriously, I have pondered just how they keep the losing teams goods from ever getting out in the wild? I was imagining giant, hungry Mastiffs sitting in front of the merchandise in some vault at the Super Bowl. Or wonder just how ironclad or dangerously threatening the non-disclosure agreements are for staff and what not.
It boggles the mind to think about this, but after a tiny bit of research, I found an answer that dampened the imagination of vaults, dogs, incinerators and walls of lawyers staring at the employees of Super Bowl T-shirt manufacturers.
Starting today (February 2nd, 2012), Lionsgate is engaging The Hunger Games fans in yet another fashion to catch your attention, adding to the wonderful viral campaign they’ve had going so far.
Lionsgate has 50 different websites (IE, 50 days until it opens in theaters) giving away tickets to see The Hunger Games, for free. That’s because today, there are only 50 days to go until the movie hits your local movie theater!
All you have to do is hit up Twitter and search for #HungerGames50 and find the websites that are participating in the free ticket give-away to the World Premiere of The Hunger Games.
Lionsgate also announced that they will have an exclusive, one week engagement with IMAX screenings, starting on its theatrical release date of March 23, 2012.
Just in case you were cruising the web looking for a few TV telecast dates, here’s some info from NBC on the 2012 Super Bowl TV schedule and (like totally related… or not) NASCAR’s Daytona 500 telecast date:
SPECIAL SUPER BOWL EDITION OF “NFL TURNING POINT” AIRS THURSDAY AT 10 P.M. ET ON NBC SPORTS NETWORK
Final Episode examines Turning Point of the season for Giants and Patriots and Turning Points that shaped season for other teams
Bill Belichick and Eli Manning also featured in Final Episode
Dan Patrick, Tony Dungy and Rodney Harrison to Conclude Program with Super Bowl XLVI Quarterback Analysis
Nothing says class like how the San Francisco 49ers lost to the NY Giants, and seemingly to a tee, the team showed solidarity and support to Kyle Williams, who has one heck of a burden to bear.
Williams flubbed a return in overtime (his second flub of the game) which got NY within range for a field goal. (Williams’ first flub ended in a NY touchdown also.) My first impressions say that his two floundered moves gave it to New York, and that’s a shame. But it is a team sport, and that’s that. NY Giants are moving on to play the New England Patriots in the 2012 Super Bowl.
At least I thought that was it. Then the demonstrative behavior started, which to me, seemed rather disappointing.
While the team was backing him up and told Williams to keep his head high, the media was reporting on TV that coach Jim Harbaugh was evidently upset enough and was declining TV interviews immediately after the game. I found that disappointing. His would have been the first best example of losing gracefully. Whether he later chatted with the media, I’m not sure.
But then it seems, Twitter erupted with death threats directed at Kyle Williams.
Seriously folks… death threats? Because one man flubbed a few times and seemingly gave the game away all by himself?
While I was watching the SF and NYG championship NFL, I was seeing that American Idol was going to start right after the game. In the last half hour of the game, they had an American Idol countdown, where it looked like American Idol would start just a few minutes before 8 p.m.. (Here on the West Coast)
The game ended, then my local Fox Affiliate on COMCAST came on and announced that American Idol was going to start at 8:30 while this local hack of a sports broadcasting show called ‘Out of the INBOX‘ had a recap of the game I just spent a few hours watching.
Seriously??? My short-term recall is not that bad… I do remember the game.
The 46th annual NFL Super Bowl will be taking place on Sunday, February 5th, 2012, culminating the 2011 NFL season. Kickoff time is slated for 6:25pm EST. That, pretty much most red-blooded men know.
But are you ready for the TV commercials that cost on average, $3.5M per 30 second spot?
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It’s that time of year again… the playoffs are here, and soon the Super Bowl 46 will be on those big screens.
When all is said and done, after “the best of the best of the best*” tackle each other in the Super Bowl, “There can be only one!*” One winner. One Super Bowl champion. (They call them world champions, but I think they’re getting a bit liberal with that term!)
But prior to the Super Bowl, the game itself takes a backseat to something more important, and that’s the TV commercials between sets and quarters.
The TV ads that play during the Super Bowl have become a fascinating focus of both the fans and the media. And it’s such a hot bed of business that by May of 2011, NBC had already sold half the TV commercial spots available.
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The Ads Were Fun When We Were Surprised
Fans used to love the ads and because we made such a fervor about them, the media and the advertisers have taken advantage of that mentality.
During the Super Bowl I was trying to figure out the best hashtag to use and found out just how ill-defined the use of Twitter hashtags are. No one controls them so there’s no centralized focus. Then I started wondering just how useful are hashtags if there’s as many different hashtag as there are Twitter users for the same subject?
