I once inquired on twitter about whether we should have an OR hashtag on twitter, to centralize and streamline OR discussions. I received a thoughtful suggestion:
hmm, #operres has more characters but is descriptive #orms less so but succinct. Put it to the community?
So, I would like to ask the community. What are your thoughts: do you prefer #OperRes, #ORMS, or something else? Answer here, or answer on twitter.
All of this assumes that twitter is a useful medium for having OR discussions. Tweets can sound a bit trite or flippant at times (OK, that was an understatement). It can be hard to say something in 140 characters, but it is certainly possible to contribute to some OR discussion in a brief message. Twitter is great for increasing access rather than directly providing content, since it is a great way to post links to OR blog posts and news articles about OR. How can twitter be best used to facilitate OR discussions?
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July 14th, 2010 at 10:58 am
#opres?
July 14th, 2010 at 11:07 am
Does it really matter?. Even if we were using #asdf, whenever it wasn’t used by anyone else it’d be useful. 😀
Anyway, I’d prefer the shorter, clearer, #ORMS.
July 14th, 2010 at 2:20 pm
I vote #ORMS
July 14th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
To be consistent with INFORMS, I prefer #orms.
July 14th, 2010 at 7:31 pm
I think you put it best that twitter is great for quick alerts on access to other media. As far as a discussion forum I’m not a fan. Maybe I’m just still trying to figure it out.
July 14th, 2010 at 10:24 pm
#ORMS
it is young and hip. and has a flow and only has four characters. I also like #IEOR this one is old, classy and has a lot of vowels!