Quote ="Chris Dalton"It's not just about trending, in fact that's a small part of it, and due to horny teenagers tweeting about something called bieber we're unlikely to. It's about connecting with people and discussing the same things. If the likes of the League Express or elsewhere want to find a post on the specific match or issue in question they need to look in one place. We differentiate between the matches because they are different discussions. Rugbyleague could refer to super league, championship, australia, new zealand, a league of union somewhere, amateur, anything. Also if people at the match want to check what others there are saying on their phones it's useless wading through texts about other games and issues before they get to tweets about this specific one.
This is what gets me. Max tried to get this up and running at the back end of last season and people couldn't stick with the plan because they were too pig headed to follow a simple instruction. They had to start their own tags in a different format just to please themselves because they couldn't manage to just get with the programme. The rugby football league are issuing these now and they still moan about the tags being used.
It's not a difficult format, it makes sense, stop questioning things for the sake of it and use the correct tags!'"
I'm glad the RFL and League Express have taken it upon themselves now. I just hope they push it properly.
There's something peculiar about Rugby League fans that has to react to everything, no matter how harmless, with distrust and dislike. It was the exact same with the NRL, fans couldn't understand why they couldn't just use #rugbyleague. Now it is not questioned.
The A-league in Australia is the 4th biggest sport (a bit like RL) and they have adopted these and got them trending worldwide. This is just a bonus to a much better way of tweeting.
