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For those unable to attend Macworld this week but wanting to keep up with all the action the guys over at hashtags.org have created a way for twitter users to tag their posts with #macworld and make it easier for all us apple junkies to follow along.

so jump over to macworld.hashtags.org and grab the rss feed.

what are #hashtags? [from the site]

#hashtags are an easy way to track a specific topic or event using the Twitter network for hyper-instant communication, coordination and reporting.

Two of my favorite things these days is twitter and tagging. I have always thought it would be great to be able to tag twitter posts to get tweets on a certain subject and track that information.

with hashtags that is possible and it is pretty simple to do. All you have to do is subscribe to the hashtags bot within twitter (and have a twitter account of course) then put a ‘#’ in front of a word and you are a hashtag pro! an example would be something like this:

going to the #apple store to get a new #macbookpro.

so with that anyone looking for posts with hashtags of #apple and #macbookpro would get your post.

The tagging of twitter posts is pretty new but seems to be picking up some steam and I think one kool thing would be twitter itself adding tagging and allowing it to not count toward the 140 character count. what do you think?

hashtag blog

another point i just thought I would throw out there you can also subscribe to an rss feed of your hashtags you want to follow - which for me is a HUGE plus.