HashTags and Groups on Twitter.

Thinking about grouping and tagging on Twitter I have stumbled upon two interesting posts about this:
- Twitter Hashtags and Groups
- Why I Unfollow People Who Use Hashtags On Twitter

Theoretically HashTags could be a solution, but given that "#" signs actually eat up space in short Twitter messages I think that simply "not displaying" them by clients and twitter is not the best option. And acutally often you need to tag the message with a word that doesn't appear in the text.

My idea is to make an open database where Tags are stored.
So you can just press TAG on any message and assign a TAG to it.
Later on you can check posts of a special person, your friends or just everybody TAGed by you and the comunity with a special tag. So you can even navigate your own posts based on the tags assigened by your friends.

I would love to hear if you think that tagging is usefull for Twitter.
Fell free to drop me an email, reply here or make a blog post and notify me to link to it.