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Reveal the humans behind your brand. Introducing CoTags

Posted: July 9th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »

Appllications like CoTweet bring more people from your company to the social media party — now they just need nametags. Specifically, there’s a need to identify the people behind your brand Twitter account and a way to signal when each of them is tweeting.

Introducing ^CoTags, a new convention for using signatures when tweeting from a brand account. It’s really simple—just the carat character followed by the person’s initials, or other identifying set of characters.

The concept is like #hashtags. But while #hashtags provide a way to track tweets topically across many users, ^CoTags create a way to associate individual tweets within a shared brand account. And in the process, ^CoTags bring “humanness” to otherwise monolithic branded Twitter accounts.

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Read more about “Making Brands Human on Twitter” at the CoTweet Blog.