I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how both my little conventions have caught on — what was once just a little trick that I used myself became much bigger when I explained what, why, and how I was doing it!

As for your proposal to add /like… I think you should start by using this convention and see if it makes sense to people, and if anyone starting imitating you. I’d also add your proposal to the microsyntax wiki:

http://microsyntax.pbworks.com

One point I’ll make about slashtags and pointers is just that: they’re intended to *point* at something else. In other words, they take an indirect object — whether an author, a recipient, or a source (among others). /like breaks that convention.

I wonder if it wouldn’t be more readable to just add something like “*like*” to the end of your tweet? Or even just use a hashtag? (#like)

In any case, feel free to add it to the wiki — and see if anyone else picks it up. Cheers!

This post was mentioned on Twitter by nicolagreco: Revolutionary use of Slashtags – a new microsyntax for Twitter http://is.gd/5lXg4 #slashtags /cc @chrismessina…

For /like I point the user it’s same as RT or /via I use it when i retweet a post because I like it:

I love nutella #nutella /like @nicolagreco

Now it should make sense :)
Cheers!

I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how both my little conventions have caught on — what was once just a little trick that I used myself became much bigger when I explained what, why, and how I was doing it!

As for your proposal to add /like… I think you should start by using this convention and see if it makes sense to people, and if anyone starting imitating you. I’d also add your proposal to the microsyntax wiki:

http://microsyntax.pbworks.com

One point I’ll make about slashtags and pointers is just that: they’re intended to *point* at something else. In other words, they take an indirect object — whether an author, a recipient, or a source (among others). /like breaks that convention.

I wonder if it wouldn’t be more readable to just add something like “*like*” to the end of your tweet? Or even just use a hashtag? (#like)

In any case, feel free to add it to the wiki — and see if anyone else picks it up. Cheers!