IfYouKnowWrexham Hashtag Gives Town Insight

A hashtag on twitter has slowly been catching speed over the last twenty four hours – hitting full bore overnight – for those giving observations of things in and around Wrexham. It follows a few other towns and cities having similar hashtags this week.

For those twits who dont tweet – a hashtag is a way of marking a message content to allow easy searching on a theme. Thus those wanting to search for #IfYouKnowWrexham comments would search that hashtag, or click a hashtag in a tweet.

Most of the tweets came from Wrexhamians, with a few hijacked from elsewhere, and gave an insight to the ‘twitter concious’ perception of our town. Overall the few hundred we read were quite witty, stereotypical and perhaps negative – but appearing to have tongue stuck firmly in cheek, at least we hope.

Here are a random(ish!) selection of tweets to give a flavour to what people were saying:
https://twitter.com/Minx34Mandy/status/281187268973178881

#IfYouKnowWrexham you'll know that next to the pedestrian entrance of our multimillion pound shopping complex is a 'Private Shop' #Ahem

— Charlotte Hughes (@charlotte_w_h_) December 18, 2012

https://twitter.com/Dan_Roberts1/status/281185920634462208
https://twitter.com/hemma_notemma/status/281177830249877504
https://twitter.com/cainn_carter/status/281179164915138561

#IfYouKnowWrexham you'll know that no small business can stay open for longer than a year before it closes down.

— Sean (@seanedwards_) December 18, 2012

https://twitter.com/fakeascake/status/281178951261499393
https://twitter.com/LeDashate/status/281184876328263680
https://twitter.com/joe_wxm/status/281179402354708481

#IfYouKnowWrexham you'll know that a swift trip to Ironworks for a few rounds of three Jaegerbombs for £6 is needed before braving South

— Amy (@Carterface_) December 18, 2012

#ifyouknowWrexham you'll know the terror of being on Mad Jeff's bus

— George Andrews (@GAndrews18) December 18, 2012

#IfYouKnowWrexham be carefull crossing the road boy racers drive round and round and round and round and round and round and round all night

— EFC STE (@EfcSP) December 18, 2012

#IfYouKnowWrexham you'll know most of the boys have better tan and eyebrows than the girls..

— Courtney Savage (@CourtneySavage) December 18, 2012

#IfYouKnowWrexham you'll know that uncontainable joy you feel when the happy ginger woman serves you at KFC

— Cat (@CatrinRhodd) December 18, 2012

#IfYouKnowWrexham you will know there's always one person outside a taxi office with kebab and sick all down there clothes on a sat night.

— Bobby Christopher (@bobbywafc) December 18, 2012

https://twitter.com/SavyClifton/status/281184332851339264

What did strike us was there was only one positive tweet in the ones we saw:

#IfYouKnowWrexham queens park isn't has bad has what people make it out to be.

— Bobby Christopher (@bobbywafc) December 18, 2012

Perhaps the best summary was:
https://twitter.com/NattyNoo_Wright/status/281184676935249920

You can click this link and head straight to a twitter search on #IfYouKnowWrexham

(Pictured: People of Wrexham in Wrexham. They might be tweeting.)