Triple tags (called "machine tags" on Flickr and in some other places) are a way of tagging web content with tags having three parts: a namespace, a predicate and a value. For example:
taxonomy:binomial=Alcedo_atthis
They can be combined with hashtags:
#taxonomy:binomial=Alcedo_atthis
See Andy Mabbett's blog post about using Triple tags on Twitter.
Issues
- Not all parsers recognise triple tags (yet)
- Triple tags can be long (the above example is 32 characters)
- Long triple tags may exceeed the string-length allowed by Twitter's search API. This is being investigated.
Triple-tag references to Twitter posts
Triple tags can also be used elsewhere, to refer to Twitter posts, or posters, see Triple-tag references to Twitter posts. Example:
twitter:status=1975532392
Comments (3)
Stowe Boyd said
at 4:10 am on Jun 8, 2009
Could we get a short description of what they do/mean/represent?
Andy Mabbett said
at 4:27 am on Jun 8, 2009
Added links in lede. Had to steal your "lock". PBWiki said you hadn't edited for over 5 mins. Hope that's OK.
DennisStevenson said
at 9:11 am on Jun 16, 2009
Looks like some sort of Context/Named Pair construct???
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