[simonsarris]

For some but I find them super hard to use well and remain funny (funny to me at least). Lame example of hashtag use:

> #baseball combines the two things Americans love most: Perfect lawns and arguments in hindsight about the decisions that professionals make.

I wrote this, but think it's funnier without the hashtag.

With many more I can think of things that I considered really funny, but had no conceivable way of adding hashtags without taking away from the brevity:

> I propose we start calling snow plow guys "Storm Troopers"

> The first stage of grief is learning to pronounce the disease.

Where could I hashtag those up without making them considerably less funny? I think the brevity is required for maximum "impact", and I don't wanna detract by putting a hashtag in the middle, because its the sentence equivalent of stressing a syllable awkwardly.

Some people on Twitter have turned this awkward word-stressing into an art. Comedian Rob Delaney comes to mind as an expert in maximizing the awkwardness of it.

[thix0tr0pic]

A common method to avoid interfering with the statement you're trying to make is to mash as many hashtags in as possible after the fact.

[arjie]

Can you imagine that, though?

"The first stage of grief is learning to pronounce the disease #joke #black humour #funny #comedy"

You'd look like a colossal ass if you did that.

[brc]

That is how twitter jokes look. It is part and parcel of the medium. Better to have the joke look like a twitter joke and get read by an audience, than to make it pure and read by nobody. Really, the hashtags are no more out of place than a smiley face on an email.

[berberous]

I don't use Twitter, but based on what I see on Instagram, I agree with the parent that those people look like asses. It comes off as whoring for followers, and a bit desperate.

I think it's different, however, if there are a few hashtags at the end which in themselves are jokes or metajokes and that add to the cleverness of the post, in the same way that XKCD alt-text does. A string of simple categories (#joke #jokes #funny #comedy) is just annoying.

[gagege]

And yet, many popular users do exactly that. I'm a huge proponent of keeping metadata, which is what hashtags are, out of the data. It sucks but, making your message "discoverable" pollutes your message.

[lumens]

What's your Twitter handle? I wanna retweet these, especially the #baseball one. I might even follow you if you keep cranking out these gems. ;)

[pradn]

These are pretty clever!