FIRST Meme

[Jessica Boucher]

I've actually decided to stick to the #omgrobots tag for kickoff this year and hope to be livetweeting over at @j_boucher.

Twitter is an interesting being, and I enjoy watching the evolution of the hashtag. Both #FRC and #FIRST are too overrun with other traffic, hence why #omgkickoff (and later #omgrobots) took off. Since the popularity of #omgrobots has spread enough into non-FRC areas, it's more impactful than changing it back for kickoff.

BTW, for those of you coming to Manchester to kickoff, the official hashtag for the city is #MHT (after the airport code). It's another case of overrun hashtags elsewhere, as #Manchester is primarily associated with Manchester, UK, #manchesternh is too many characters to be useful, #manchattan never took off and #manchvegas is just silly.