A hashtag is an easy way to identify tweets that pertain to specific subjects. By pulling all twitter posts which include #truehedonism we can easily show only what has to do with our trip. It’s obscure enough so that irrelevant tweets aren’t likely to include it and accidentally get pulled into our feed but it’s easy to remember for people who do want to participate.

Make sure that you have included the hashtag #truehedonism and that it’s spelled properly. The feed will only show tweets that clearly have #truehedonism in them. You must also make sure that your account isn’t locked. Go to settings and make sure “Protect my tweets” is NOT checked. There are also cases in which the feed will not pull in tweets from inactive accounts so if you’ve just set up a new account or don’t post very often you may have to become a more active twitter user in order to join us in the feed.

Because anything posted to twitter with #truehedonism in it can be pulled into the feed, we may end up with things that aren’t supposed to be there. We’ll try to monitor it so that it doesn’t get out of control but since this is a road trip and we plan to do a lot of camping there’s a chance some spam could get into the feed when we’re not looking. We’ll get to it as soon as we return to urbanity.