Endzone Twitter Hashtag: What Do You Think?

Most everyone knows about Twitter, the online social-media site that allows users to post 140-character messages.

Usage has become so common that one SEC school has decided to bring it into real-world preparations for a football game this weekend.

Mississippi State has painted "#hailstate" in an end zone for Saturday's game vs. Ole Miss in an obvious attempt to let fans know the prevailing keyword for tweets. We hear that Alabama fans attach "#rtr" -- for "Roll, Tide, Roll" -- to their tweets, but that hasn't made it into an end zone yet. And is there a prevailing keyword for Georgia and Georgia Tech tweets?

To be clear, attaching a hashtag to a word or term in Twitter turns it into a keyword and makes all tweets with that keyword easily findable by search -- "#suwanee" for instance would turn up all tweets with that keyword.

Still, this is a significant move, for a major university to devote on-field decoration to a social media term in a key game. It's a watershed event, like when someone tweeted the picture of the jetliner that had put down in the Hudson River in New York in 2009.

So what do you think: Is this going too far? Is it trampling on tradition? Take our poll, and tell us in the comments.

(Information from mashable.com was used in this report.)