I use twitter more as an information source than a communication tool. That means that I am largely silent and let all my friends do the talking.
So I’m probably not fulfilling my twitter responsibilities - oh well.

Twitter has some interesting features, one of those being able to track conversations - for instance "track earthquake" will track all tweets on an earthquake. This is a great ‘personal’ meme-tracker but it would be even better if there was a public way to track memes.

It should be simple, just like how replying to tweets evolved on twitter. Twitterers started using @username to denote replies to specific people and the fine folks at twitter formalized it as funcionality so that whenever twitter sees @username the tweet goes into a ‘replies’ bucket - nice.

Now, I’m going to suggest that the fine folks at twitter institutionalize public memes. So that anyone could see the discussion on a particular topic.

Here’s what I propose, in addition to being able to do the whole ‘track’ thing for personal meme tracking. Allow ‘tagging’ of tweets via the pound/hash sign ( # ). Any tweets that are marked with #memename could then be aggregated in their own twitter page. Additionally, they could be individually trackable by track #memename.

Anyone out there who also uses twitter agree or disagree?