Thanks for posting that, I've never understood what the hashtag thing is all about. Now I know.
Vapers win in epic hashtag hijack
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Thanks for posting that, I've never understood what the hashtag thing is all about. Now I know.
To my knowledge, the only time a vape-related hashtag has trended was in the run up to the MEP vote.
The ultimate dream for campaigners (and, of course, marketers) is for enough people to use the hashtag for a trend to start. Virality, in other words.
So, the hope behind the #curbit campaign will have been for it to trend in the SF area, thus creating virality and a buzz around the topic. Instead, vapers took it over and turned it into a stream of criticism.
We'll now see a really awful piece of research in the Journal of Medical Internet Studies which tries to claim all these people were "astroturf" accounts using spurious models and daft prior assumptions.... Can't wait.
The ultimate dream for campaigners (and, of course, marketers) is for enough people to use the hashtag for a trend to start. Virality, in other words.
So, the hope behind the #curbit campaign will have been for it to trend in the SF area, thus creating virality and a buzz around the topic. Instead, vapers took it over and turned it into a stream of criticism.
We'll now see a really awful piece of research in the Journal of Medical Internet Studies which tries to claim all these people were "astroturf" accounts using spurious models and daft prior assumptions.... Can't wait.
Ha! I'm 50 and I've been using hash tags for a decade.
Think of them as a way to categorize things. #post #ecigs #forumstuff
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, California (San Francisco) is not currently implementing all of the recommended program components fully. In addition, the money for Proposition 99-funded tobacco control programs is decreasing. Yet the tobacco industry is spending more than $1.5 million a day on advertising and promotions in the state. From 1990 to 1998, the California Tobacco Control Program produced estimated savings of over $8 billion in smoking-attributable direct medical costs and indirect costs together.
Philippe Boucher's Rendez Vous: Kirk Kleinschmidt
Philippe Boucher's Rendez Vous: Kirk Kleinschmidt
That this is about vaping, smoking, and/or public health is deeply disturbing on it's own. But the bureaucratic thought mechanisms behind this kind of propaganda campaign are truly terrifying.
Thanks, I'm 53 and didn't know that either. I'm not computer illiterate, been using them since DOS. Just thought of twitter as a modern day CB radio craze. Then again what do I know, I thought mice were a passing fad too.
Not really. If the state is defined by its population then it is very liberal. Maybe you are thinking prior to 68. Then again democrats were conservative and republicans liberal back prior to 68. The couple cities must then have the greater number of people which well doesn't really matter.
Wait until your 12 year old daughter comes home and says "hashtag, can I go to a friends?". I said until you can speak like a normal person you aren't doing anything and I'll take that iphone, ipod and ipad until you can say you won't ever say hashtag to me again...
Hit the nail flush on the head with that statement, as that is one of the main reasons our country is in the position it is now and the other is pure greed at all levels of society. People are only concerned with what is best for them now with no concern as to what their decision will cause in the future. Sorry for the rant but your comment is so simple yet it's the core to the whole screwed up system we have these days.
Yep, SF is a melting pot of the world where people do their own thing mostly, will stand their ground even if it's against the grain of society, yet as a whole still get along with each other pretty well. I lived there most of the time from 1967-1971, married a local gal, will always like it and consider it the second best place I lived when in CA (Carmel in the 70's was the best).
This is enough to make me want to open a twitter account and lambast those twits too.
I was being serious. So no matter where you post a hashtag (a forum, news site, etc.) it will go to twitter?
Whoa now-I live in a red very conservative state and we've embraced vaping. Heck I vote very conservatively and frankly I don't care what anyone does!
It depends on the site and if it's connected to Twitter in any way. The new software we're working on for the new and improved ECF will have this ability to connect directly into individual Twitter accounts.
It depends on the site and if it's connected to Twitter in any way. The new software we're working on for the new and improved ECF will have this ability to connect directly into individual Twitter accounts.
Interesting. Never been too keen on social media. I use facebook every now and then, but would never have a twitter account. I have no friends, so who the hell would want to follow me on it? xD
Only in my dreams is Reason.com part of the Main Stream Media. It's a Libertarian journal. But this is a sensationally sensible article and hopefully will reach more than just a few....
Vapers. Seriously -- I've had a twitter acct since 2010, and used it exactly twice -- until I became a vaper (2014!) and totally enraged at what THEY are trying to do to us. Now I have 149 followers!
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Okay I have to defend my people, I've lived in California almost my whole life and I'm very liberal just like many of the city dwellers who live in our state. I don't want to take away ANYTHING from you! This whole vaping scene is new and people are often scared of what's new. Vaping is here to stay. The science is on our side and as more research is done the people (Who you may call Liberals) will find it harder and harder to deny the facts. Vapers can be liberal, conservative, or somewhere in between but we all share a passion, a hobby, and a common goal. We are a fragmented group and the opponents are not, we should stick together.
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