Social media is an essential part of the college students’ lives.

While Facebook is still arguably the most popular form of social media, Twitter is rapidly on the rise, allowing its users to retweet, follow and favorite things others say.

ULM’s football season caused quite a stir on Twitter before the game against ULL.

“Even though we lost the game, trending topics on twitter such as ‘#thingsgreaterthanULL’ and ‘#CajunHateWeek’ acted as bonding tools for the student body via social media,” said Tyler Ainsworth, a senior psychology major, “I believe that our students showed an immense amount of spirit last week and would personally love to see more of it.” During the week of the game, it was Cajun Hate Week on Twitter. Students made spirited statuses for ULM or against ULL and then hash-tag them “#CajunHateWeek.”

Hash-tags are phrases typed behind the “#” symbol. For example, “#SorryNotSorry” is currently a popular hash-tag. If the hash-tag becomes popular enough and is used enough on the site, it is called ‘trending.’

The hash-tag “#thingsgreaterthanULL” also took over Twitter. Students tweeted things they didn’t like and then hash-tag “#thingsgreaterthanULL” behind it. For example, “Losing my homework > ULL #thingsgreaterthanULL.”

The trending hash tags caught the eyes of an ESPN radio station, where they posted what some of the ULM students were tweeting about on their website.

While most students thought it was fun and innocent banter, some people didn’t think it was very classy.

“I am all about school spirit and pride and I am all about some friendly sports trash talking. However, Cajun Hate Week on Twitter really disappointed me. I never wanted to be associated with a school that had for lack of a better word ‘ugly’ fans,” said Meghan Olinger, a ULM alum.