Twitter has a feature on their site which shows current trends. The system is setup to show what the majority of people are talking about. For example Iran and Michael Jackson are currently trending on twitter because a lot of people are talking about it.

A hashtag is a convention used on twitter to make a keyword search able on twitter. A hash is just a #. So an example would be #FollowFriday.

From time to time you will see these hashtag trend for things that allow people to learn more about one another. A good example of this is #thingsboyssay and #thinggirlssay which was going around on twitter for a few weeks.

This week I want to try an experiment and see what it takes to get a hastag trend started. With the death of Michael Jackson it brought up the ‘Where were you moments’ conversations on twitter. So this week answer the following and include the following hashtag….

#wherewereyou for the death Princess Di?
#wherewereyou for 911?
#wherewereyou for the Challenger accident ?
#wherewereyou for death Lennon?
#wherewereyou for JFK?
#wherewereyou for M. King? MJ?
#wherewereyou for anything you feel was a where were you moment?

I look forward to seeing how this works. You can follow along and view the results here.