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.haiku column 18


.haiku column number 18 • 4-7-2013

by Gene Myers

Getting creative with #hashtags

As far as getting the conversation going between the #haiku world and the #WorldAtLarge, lately I've been thinking about two things: Twitter audiences and hashtags. At times, I think I know these things well. I am the social media editor for a newspaper, so I spend a lot of time thinking about them.

Yet somehow a young reporter was able to #surprise me the other day with a simple suggestion, he said we should use more #s in our tweets. #SeemsObviousRight?

But what he was hinting at was #important. Not only is the chatter on Twitter still going strong, it has the attention of a younger audience than Facebook. Twitter doesn't go through the periodic (and frequent) backlashes that Facebook does. Each time Facebook changes its format or makes new rules, there's a #protest. Meanwhile, Twitter just keeps rolling along.

Here is the related epiphany. Of course I use hashtags. Typically, this means I type #haiku or #poem at the ends of the poems I tweet. But using more hashtags brings those tweets to different audiences.

"ROIZO Training" favorited my recent tweet of baseball haiku in honor of baseball season. When I tweeted poems I wrote based on the day's news, I gained the reporters who were working on those stories as followers.

So if you wish to open your poems up to a wider dialogue—beyond your fellow poets—I urge you to get creative with your hashtags.

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The Haiku Society of America web site featured a Haiku Column written by Gene Myers. Here is the archive of his columns written from 2010-2017

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.haiku column number 33 by Gene Myers • 2/10/16

.haiku column number 32 by Gene Myers • 1/6/16


.haiku column number 31 by Gene Myers • 10/29/15

.haiku column number 30 by Gene Myers • 7/9/15

.haiku column number 29 by Gene Myers • 3/23/15

.haiku column number 28 by Gene Myers • 1/15/15



.haiku column number 27 by Gene Myers • 9/26/14

.haiku column number 26 by Gene Myers • 7/14/14

.haiku column number 25 by Gene Myers • 4/14/14

.haiku column number 24 by Gene Myers • 2/10/14

.haiku column number 23 by Gene Myers • 1/2/14



.haiku column number 22 by Gene Myers • 10/7/13

.haiku column number 21 by Gene Myers • 8/25/13

.haiku column number 20 by Gene Myers • 6/30/13

.haiku column number 19 by Gene Myers • 5/18/13

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.haiku column number 17 by Gene Myers • 3/10/13

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.haiku column number 15 by Gene Myers • 1/2/13



.haiku column number 14 by Gene Myers • 11/18/12

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.haiku column number 12 by Gene Myers • 9/27/12

.haiku column number 11 by Gene Myers • 8/26/12

.haiku column number 10 by Gene Myers • 7/19/12

.haiku column number 9 by Gene Myers • 6/17/12

.haiku column number 8 by Gene Myers • 5/19/12

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.haiku column number 5 by Gene Myers • 2/12/12

.haiku column number 4 by Gene Myers • 1/23/12



.haiku column number 3 by Gene Myers • 10/17/11

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