Tech Tuesday: 3 tools to track twitter hashtag usage

Not sure how to monitor how many people use your business hashtag? Check out these 3 easy-to-use tools and find out how successful your Twitter campaign really is.

1. The Archivist

The Archivist is a service that uses the Twitter Search API to find and archive tweets.

The Archivist does not have access to the Twitter “firehose” (ie., all the tweets ever on a subject). As such, the tweets archived by The Archivist are not guaranteed to represent a complete historical record of a given term or search. Read the FAQ to learn more about The Archivist.

Visualizations are graphic representations of the data your archives. Visualizations generated by The Archivist may not represent a complete historical record. Use The Archivist to help you understand trends such as the number of Tweets over time, top users and words, sentiment, and more. Check out our handy visualizations page for more info or see what types of visualizations The Archivist creates below..

2. Hashtag.com

Hashtag.org the original Hashtag wiki & Twitter Trends collaboration. provides real-time tracking of Twitter hashtags. Opt-in by following @hashtags to have your hashtags tracked.

3. Topsy.com

Topsy is a realtime search engine powered by the Social Web. Unlike traditional web search engines, Topsy indexes and ranks search results based upon the most influential conversations millions of people are having every day about each specific term, topic, page or domain queried.

If you go to Topsy.com, you will see a familiar looking search engine page.  What makes the results there any different from other search engines?  According to their site the answer is, “Because of how Topsy works, Topsy can do things other search engines don’t usually do. Topsy results are fresh, because they’re based on what you’re talking about right now.

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