Calgary Municipal Pre-Election: Hashtag Selection

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May 20, 2010 - By

Nation, as one of the first (THE first?) Tweeters to use #yyccc to tag tweets related to Calgary’s City Council, the issue of using #yyccc for election coverage strikes particularly close to home for me.  I’ve been using it just like everyone else, but we’ve got to agree on a convention – what hashtag will we ALL use, to keep things simpler (the entire point of a hashtag in the first place)?

I’ve heard some people want to keep #yyccc strictly for issues of actual governance by the sitting council, rather than filling up the stream with election tweets.  Which is certainly fair, in my opinion.

A good article on how to go about choosing an appropriate hashtag can be found here.

No matter what decision we make, the winning hashtag needs to be 3 things:

  1. Easy to remember
  2. As short as is practical (it counts towards your 140 characters!)
  3. Forced down the throats of those mis-using the old one (if applicable)


Results will be announced tomorrow, and a new hashtag (possibly) will be born.

- E.S.

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  • http://enlightenedsavage.blogspot.com/ The Enlightened Savage

    Adam: I don’t know if many people would realize the “e” stood for election – that’s the problem (in my opinion) with “#yyclxn” as well, it’s a leap to connect that as reading “yyc election”. I’m inclined to go with yycvote (2 characters longer than yyccc) or yycvotes (3 characters longer), but we’ll let the herd decide, since Twitter and hashtags are universally democratic – what the most people use, we’ll have to go with. :)

  • adamzendel

    I like #yycvote, but feel it might be too long, what about #yyce?

  • http://djkelly.ca DJ Kelly

    You weren't the first ES. #yyccc is the only hashtag I can take credit for creating. Sadly I created it on the first day of the PlanIt debate because I was running late for the CC meeting and decided I'd rather follow the conversation on Twitter anyway, but I needed a way to group the conversations together. So I tweeted out for everyone to pretty please use #yyccc. And to my pleasure, most did. I chose #yyccc because our friends in Edmonton were already using #yegcc so it seemed prudent to follow there lead. And now you know. (Not that anyone should care though.)

  • http://enlightenedsavage.blogspot.com E.S.

    Adam: I don’t know if many people would realize the “e” stood for election – that’s the problem (in my opinion) with “#yyclxn” as well, it’s a leap to connect that as reading “yyc election”. I’m inclined to go with yycvote (2 characters longer than yyccc) or yycvotes (3 characters longer), but we’ll let the herd decide, since Twitter and hashtags are universally democratic – what the most people use, we’ll have to go with. :)