Maximize your tweet's chance of discovery via hashtags • Hacker News Board

Re: Maximize your tweet's chance of discovery via hashtags

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Post by osakasaul » Wed, Mar 26, 2014, 2:02 AM UTC

maintopbiz wrote: post #27

binxbolling wrote: post #21

Can I give you some unsolicited feedback? - On Firefox 27x the "Most Popular" note is overlapped on top of the pricing, making both hard to read - the jump from free to lite seems a little large... is there no room for, say, a $5/mo plan? - after authorizing Twitter in order to sign up, the site blanked out and I had to go back to ritetag.com manually, after which I was logged in - I can't tell a difference between t…

Thanks a lot! We will check the Firefox issues and learn more about color-blindness to make RiteTag more accessible. Regarding the cheaper plan, we'll need to think it through as small amounts are not profitable due fixed costs per transaction.

Be sure you save that great comment, Mr. CTO. That's why we're in Hacker News; the people who help us see where we're in need of improvement. (Thanks, @binxbolling!)

In regards to plan cheaper than our "Lite" plan, kindly keep in mind that we have hard costs. Scaling up to meet the needs of API customers, and also, recaculations on the nearly 2 million Hashtag Scans that our users reply on... recalculations on millions of hashtags as for their likelihood of leading to discovery, this take a lot of access. Further, we provide actual analytics that help RiteTaggers learn from their efforts. I don't believe you'll find anything nearly as cheap as our Pro plan - let alone the Lite plan - that does anything close to this. When you're in there and do some smart-tagged tweets from RiteTag, you'll see this in Stats and also My Top-performing tags (Tweet Composer). But do let me know @osakasaul if you still believe we're costly.

Re: Maximize your tweet's chance of discovery via hashtags

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Post by osakasaul » Wed, Mar 26, 2014, 3:59 AM UTC

PhasmaFelis wrote: post #24

What? I thought this was Hacker News, not Marketing News.

Actually, hashtags are not just for marketing, nor is RiteTag. People get plenty done, such as bringing people to #hackforgood or hackathon events, search for lost children, and more. But without a hashtag grading system, they really have no idea which hashtags are best for getting discovered.

Re: Maximize your tweet's chance of discovery via hashtags

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Post by osakasaul » Wed, Mar 26, 2014, 6:27 AM UTC

paulgb wrote: post #8

Does this account how often people search for each hashtag? Do people really discover tweets with generic hashtags like #Guide?

There is personal experience - from our people and the many that talk about hashtag successes. As examples, "operation wallstreet" rallied tremendous community support with #ows and then related hashtags like #owsboston etc. When there was media blackout about a rigged election in Iran and phonelines were even blocked, a hashtag spread the truth. What's more, it was my personal experience, during the big earthquake and tsunami (tidal wave) in Japan, and seeing how I could find very relevant tweets from hashtag streams rather than the cover-up on Fukushima on TV that led me to understand that hashtags have power - but that no one knew which was any better than another.

Re: Maximize your tweet's chance of discovery via hashtags

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Post by osakasaul » Wed, Mar 26, 2014, 8:31 AM UTC

1wheel wrote: post #14

onion2k wrote: post #2

Do people actually watch hashtags that aren't event specific?

I scroll through #d3js every few days to see what's being made/talked about.

Yes, and many people set up a column in Hotsuite/Tweetdeck/etc. to track a few hashtags passively. When someone's using #ritetag or #startuplife, #hashtagmarketing, I see it this way.