How to Use One Email Address with Multiple Twitter Accounts. Definition of hashtags, the easy hashtag directory. #HashtagBattle. Trendistic - see trends in twitter. How the Hashtag Became a Campaign Battleground - Nancy Scola - Politics. Twitter's content-sorting mechanism is the latest messaging weapon in the 2012 presidential contest One of the most contested battles in the online political arena in recent weeks was a fight over Obama's new push to make policy by executive order -- and which ideological camp could best define the hashtag that described it.
"We can't wait," proclaimed the president on Monday, Oct. 24, announcing that in the absence of congressional action on his jobs plan, he'd be advancing orders on mortgages, school loans, opportunities for veterans, and more. Republicans had a field day. "#WeCantWait to make @BarackObama a one-term president," tweeted Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus that day. A flurry of tweets followed. By Tuesday afternoon, the White House, which, notably, initially hadn't bothered making use of the tweet-friendly mantra as a hashtag, made an attempt to reclaim it. It wasn't always so. But it wasn't new. But having pointed fun with the hashtag is newer.