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I was looking through the tags to see what else might be appropriate to add to a post only tagged with social-network. The description for that tag reads:

This tag is appropriate for questions dealing with communities on social networks. It is also appropriate to add more specific tags such as the exact social network being utilized.

So I looked for other social networks to use as tags. There is one for facebook and another for blog. There is nothing for websites in general, though there is a web-forums one. What's a web-forum? I suppose SE is one...and other bulletin boards.

The question dealt with Twitter and boom, there is no Twitter tag. No Instagram either. Is it time to do some updating?

Can we add a Twitter tag? Anything else?

Edited to add:

I wanted to add it to this question: Establishing yourself in "Regular" and NSFW communities

Twitter: While I haven't gone through them all, there are 59 posts on the site that mention the word Twitter. I assume a reasonable percentage of them would benefit from the tag.

Instagram: 8 posts that mention the word Instagram.

Snapchat: 1 snapchat (my teen uses that one a lot so it's just going to get more popular).

Wordpress: 19 posts mentioning Wordpress. These can go under "blog" but talking about the general care and feeding of a blog is very different from talking about technical issues regarding the software. I'd recommend both tags.

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    Can you provide a list of posts that would need Twitter? We can add a tag, but if we don't get it on a post in 24 hours, it clears itself out. Any other ones you had in mind?
    – Andy Mod
    Commented Dec 28, 2018 at 14:06
  • I wanted to add it to this question: communitybuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/3005/…
    – Cyn
    Commented Dec 28, 2018 at 17:52
  • While I haven't gone through them all, there are 59 posts on the site that mention the word Twitter. I assume a reasonable percentage of them would benefit from the tag. communitybuilding.stackexchange.com/search?q=twitter
    – Cyn
    Commented Dec 28, 2018 at 17:54
  • 8 posts that mention the word Instagram: communitybuilding.stackexchange.com/search?q=instagram
    – Cyn
    Commented Dec 28, 2018 at 17:55
  • 1 snapchat (my teen uses that one a lot so it's just going to get more popular). communitybuilding.stackexchange.com/search?q=snapchat
    – Cyn
    Commented Dec 28, 2018 at 17:56
  • 19 posts mentioning Wordpress. These can go under "blog" but talking about the general care and feeding of a blog is very different from talking about technical issues regarding the software. I'd recommend both tags. communitybuilding.stackexchange.com/search?q=wordpress
    – Cyn
    Commented Dec 28, 2018 at 17:58
  • @Andy Sorry to flood the comments here. I can create answers for each suggested tag so they get voted on, or edit the original question, just let me know. I also don't know if I, with my low rep, can create any of these tags myself (subject to approval from moderators). Not to be badge hunting but well... :-)
    – Cyn
    Commented Dec 28, 2018 at 18:03
  • Can you add the comments to the question (as an edit). That'll make it a little easier for us to vote on. I'm pretty sure you can add tags. It looks to me a 150 rep privilege. Congratulations! :)
    – Andy Mod
    Commented Dec 28, 2018 at 18:20
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    We do have a few additional platforms (not necessarily social-media) too. reddit stack-exchange and irc are ones that popped out when I quickly skimmed the tags.
    – Andy Mod
    Commented Dec 28, 2018 at 18:23
  • @Andy I've done the edit. IRC lol! I love that service and used it extensively...in the 1990's. Might be time for some updating.
    – Cyn
    Commented Dec 28, 2018 at 18:43
  • @Andy and others...so will there be voting? Any one else care to weigh in? Should I just create a couple tags and see if there is protest? Do I need to make a temp post to create them, then retag some other posts with the new tags, and remove my post?
    – Cyn
    Commented Dec 30, 2018 at 6:26
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    Go ahead and create them. You should be able to add the tag to a post without creating a temporary post.
    – Andy Mod
    Commented Dec 30, 2018 at 6:37
  • @Andy I appear to have successfully created a Twitter tag by editing the post I link to in the question. Although I have enough rep to create tags, that appears to be on my own posts only. I do not have enough rep to edit and need to get approval for each one. I also had to edit at least 6 characters in the body of the post to get the edit request to go through; fortunately, the OP modified the post and I found a couple typos to fix. Once it's approved, I am willing to add the tag to all relevant posts, but that will create a long editing approval queue. How do you want me to handle it?
    – Cyn
    Commented Dec 30, 2018 at 17:58
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    the mobile app doesn't seem to have posted my comment yesterday. The edit has been approved. Also, I'll be off of mobile after the first of the year and can help out more effectively when I'm on a more stable connection.
    – Andy Mod
    Commented Dec 31, 2018 at 16:00
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    Let's create an answer below with a list of each post that gets Twitter tags. With that many we'd flood the home page with old edits. We may be able to get a community manager involved to mass retag, but we'll need a metal post with an answer detailing it. Instagram and Snapchat can be added by us without any issues.
    – Andy Mod
    Commented Dec 31, 2018 at 16:07

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Posts that would benefit from the Twitter tag:

I created the tag on this post, which has been approved: Establishing yourself in "Regular" and NSFW communities

There are 59 posts containing the word "twitter." I assumed these were questions but it turns out answers are counted here as well. So there are not as many questions as I thought.

These are the ones I would like to add the new twitter tag to.

Posts that maybe should have a twitter tag:

Posts I don't think need a twitter tag:

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Snapchat Tag

https://communitybuilding.stackexchange.com/search?q=snapchat

There is only one mention of Snapchat and it's in an answer. So there is no need for a tag at this time.

I will say though that when I asked my teen (an expert! aren't they all?) about this issue and which social media platforms might need tags, she was adamant that Snapchat be included. Because teens use it a lot. Which means that 10 years from now, it will be part of the adult community.

But until we get a post that talks about it, I say let's hold off on the tag.

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Wordpress Tag

Of the 19 mentions of Wordpress on the site, 7 are questions.

I created the tag using this post: Wordpress comments vs Forum

I would also like to add the wordpress tag to these questions:

I do not feel a wordpress tag is needed for these posts:

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Youtube Tag

There are 15 mentions of youtube.

I created a tag for this question: Strategies for keeping multiple platforms in sync?

I went ahead and created the tag because I was already editing the above question to add existing tags to it and it made sense to do it all together.

None of the other questions mentioning Youtube are asking anything that has to do with Youtube specifically.

If this is too specific a tag, reject it. But Youtube is a legitimate community where people have discussions (in comments) about videos posted there, and there are tech issues with posting, syncing, etc. So I expect to see more questions about it.

or might be another option, with synonyms for and and whatever else might pop up.

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Instagram Tag

https://communitybuilding.stackexchange.com/search?q=instagram

I created the instagram tag by editing Ideas on how to create interest/community for a photography website?

The other question mentioning Instagram does not appear to need a tag. Build a "liking" feature that best fosters an active community

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    The instagram under that post is irrelevant; the OP mentions several social media sites, but the question is about a private site.
    – user732
    Commented Dec 31, 2018 at 20:41
  • It's asking about promotion and Instagram is one of the platforms they're using for promotion. Facebook would be another. It's borderline but I believe it falls on the "add the tag" side of the line.
    – Cyn
    Commented Dec 31, 2018 at 20:43

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