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Halloween via tags

Happy Halloween! Recently, more than ever before, an increased number of people participates in content generation. Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and the many other content publishing tools enable endless sharing about the coming holiday. I decided to gather some of the celebrating Halloween voices, from all around the web, in the form of tags.

Twitter Search

• Trivial: Halloween #Costume #candy #pumpkin #Decorations
• The scary stuff: #vampire #witch #ghost #Frightened #spiders #webs haunted #cemeteries #horror #bats #zombie
• Search combinations: haunted house, Halloween + recipes, Halloween+Costume, Halloween + Decorations, #Halloween + #movies, #Halloween + #parties
  scary costumes zombie film Halloween
• Spooky all year round: #Paranormal #Wicca #wiccan #Pagan #Magic #Spell #occult #tarot

Observation/tip about hashtags: For the most part, I got better results on Twitter Search not using hashtags. I got a lot of spam tweets using hashtags. For instance, the search for haunted yields better results than #haunted. There is no need to ignore Hashtags, those are very useful in some scenarios like conferences, meet up, and integration with other media channels that broadcast simultaneously (this is for another blog post, I guess), but apparently, hashtags are too easy to take advantage of.

Blogs and Discussions

• WordPress: blogs about haunted
• BackType: blog comments about Halloween and haunted
• UberVW: discussion about Halloween and haunted

People

Follow @HauntedHouses or find more Halloween tweeps on wefollow and twellow

Website and blogs

• Here is a cool directory if you are looking for haunted houses experience in your area.
• More Americans believe in haunted houses than global warming : A scary Halloween tale. via OneRiot
• Video – America’s Paranormal History via LazyFeed (and the book)
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• photo credit Jimmy_Joe
• This old house is not haunted just beautiful!

Google Insights for Search

Looking at few Halloween search patterns in the last 30 days, using Halloween related keywords, revealed that the people in Idaho seems to care the most about Halloween, the people in Utah search the most for Haunted house and Pumpkin, and the people of Connecticut are looking for Halloween costumes more than others, at least based on Google’s data.

Happy Halloween!