Disclaimer: For those of you who follow me, I know I have been pretty quiet as of late... been dealing with a few things offline (including someone I care about in the hospital) & will continue to be in the background for some time. It won't be anything permanent but the "hiatus" is necessary for the time being. Unfortunately, this caused me to miss the monthly #HIVEPUD run by the lovely @traciyork as well as some other things...but I will return soon. :)
However, I digress...this post isn't supposed to be about me per se (though I did want to keep you all in the loop)...
I made an interesting discovery as I did my daily check on #HIVETwitter today. I kept seeing the infamous #hive hashtag being used as it always is, but as I looked further into some of the posts, I noticed something didn't look right...
For example, I saw this (which I tweeted about):
and then, I saw these posts:
So, I put my detective hat on (well, not really but it sounds good lol) & investigated it a little more... I went on to my lovely browser & searched "hive" but all I could find was the Google Play Hive smart app for your home &, of course, our beloved HIVE blockchain...
It gets even weirder as I try to google it more and even tried a few of the links the posts mentioned where their profiles are & it goes to other things....
Either I am really tired or something is strange here...
Of course, new social apps pop up every day & there's nothing wrong with that. However, my concern was about the hashtags we use to promote & bring awareness to our blockchain.
While it may not seem like a "big deal", as we continue to just use #hive, this will continue to be mixed up with all of these tweets for the app, completely unrelated to us. Also, it will cause unnecessary chaos with people on the outside who are interested in what our blockchain has to offer. It actually might scare them off!
So, I wanted to throw this raw post out there to see what your thoughts were about changing the hashtag or any other suggestions that you (esp @nathanmars, @traciyork & anyone else) all might have...we have built our #HiveTwitter community so much that I hate to see it get tainted by such a random circumstance...
My apologies for the lack of structure in this post but wanted to get it out there as soon as possible. Yes, I am a little protective of our HIVE. ;) Thank you for your patience with me & I will return soon! :)
Until then,
Pixie ;)
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