We have ourselves a #STL hashtag dispute

By on July 1, 2011 in General Tech News

[blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/RizzoTees/status/86430691448991744"]

And with that suggestion, the first hashtag ‘dispute’ (that I am aware of, anyway)  to involve St. Louis was on:

[blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/RexDixon/status/86433679462768640"]

This stems from something called the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which is, according to NowLebanon.com, looking into the 2005 murder of Lebanon’s ex-premier.

a UN tribunal probing the 2005 murder of Lebanese ex-Premier Rafik Hariri has issued arrest warrants against four Lebanese suspects in the case, a judicial official told AFP on Thursday.

The sealed warrants were submitted to Lebanon’s prosecutor general Said Mirza on Thursday morning along with a copy of the indictment drafted by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, said the official who did not wish to be named.

Serious stuff, for sure. So serious in fact, they are apparently not willing to give up the hashtag:

[blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/OmarSallman/status/86435131631468544"]

Looks like we are going to have to share it, as I don’t see either side giving in.

If you follow the #STL hashtag to keep up on what is going on here in St. Louis, Missouri, and have seen some tweets about Lebanon, well, now you know.

Seen any other good exchanges? Is this a big deal to you? Please let me know.

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8 Responses to We have ourselves a #STL hashtag dispute

  1. Josh Kocurek (@joshkocurek) July 1, 2011 at 1:38 pm #

    Sigh. Twitter hashtag disputes. #FirstWorldProblems RT @stlsmr: We have ourselves a #STL hashtag dispute – http://t.co/9pJzuBC #stl

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  2. Chris Reimer July 1, 2011 at 2:13 pm #

    Thank you for bringing this critical dispute to light.

    In all seriousness, my recommendation to them that they change their hashtag usage was double-edged:

    1. I was not interested in seeing Lebanese tweets in our #STL tweetstream

    2. More importantly, the very reason you use a hashtag is to rally people around a certain topic. They are dealing with some serious sh*t in Lebanon, and now their curated #STL tweetstream is going to be all jammed up with St. Louis stuff. They don’t want that.

    The hashtag #STFL is not being used, and would give them a better stream of tweets. On a lighter note, #STFL looks so much like #STFU that it’s kinda funny.

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  3. judson f. snell (@judsonfsnell) July 1, 2011 at 2:20 pm #

    Maybe I’m a little midwestern here, but fuck Lebanon. http://t.co/DxIzsv8 @gbussmann @threefourteen @rizzotees @RexDixon

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  4. Michael Daehn July 2, 2011 at 9:03 am #

    I think Chris gave them some sound social media advice – and for free.

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    • Greg Bussmann July 2, 2011 at 12:20 pm #

      I shudder to think what the retail price of that advice would be.

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  5. Allison Collinger (@ahawkcollinger) July 2, 2011 at 10:16 am #

    Hi @stltoday: int’l Twitter story brewing? RT @ahawkcollinger Hmm.. RT @michaeldaehn #STL hashtag dispute http://t.co/MY61ury via: @stlsmr

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  7. Erin Eschen (@ErinE) July 5, 2011 at 5:30 pm #

    We have ourselves a #STL hashtag dispute http://goo.gl/fb/SDy15

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