Twitter Hashtagify

twitter.hashtagify.js

/*
 *  Accepts any string, and returns a twitter hastag of that string
 *	@text - String to convert to a hashtag
 */

function makeHashTag(text) {
    var v = text.replace(/[^a-z0-9]/gi, '');
    if (!isNaN(v[0])) {
        var fixtr = "num";
        switch (v[0]) {
        case '0': fixter = 'zero'; break;
        case '1': fixtr = 'one'; break;
        case '2': fixtr = 'two'; break;
        case '3': fixtr = 'three'; break;
        case '4': fixtr = 'four'; break;
        case '5': fixtr = 'five'; break;
        case '6': fixtr = 'six'; break;
        case '7': fixtr = 'seven'; break;
        case '8': fixtr = 'eight'; break;
        case '9': fixtr = 'nine'; break;
        }
        v = v.replace(v[0], fixtr);
    }
    return '#' + v;
}