What The Hashtag is a service from the Microblink team that helps track and analyze hashtags on Twitter. Hashtags are denoted by the “#” symbol in front of a word and have become a way for people to track and follow Twitter discussions. The WTH service was born out of the need to have a centralized wiki for people to find out more information about the hashtag.
While improving the layout and design of the site, the team added some great new features. First, they’ve added additional statistics.
We’ve been tracking the number of times a hashtag is being used for awhile, as well tracking the top contributors, but now we also call out the number of uses made by each contributor, and the total number of tweets and unique contributors for a week’s worth of usage.
You can also run transcripts of hashtag usage – which allows you to export all of the tweets from a specific hashtag for any date range. This eliminates the tedious task of scrolling through Twitter search to catch up on missed tweets.
One of my favorite new features they have added is the ability to watch and participate in a hashtag conversation directly on their site. Now you can join the conversation while watching it in real time…
Click the participate link and a box will pop open allowing you to craft your message. You will be greeted by a message box with the familiar character counter and your hashtag already inserted. Just include your username and password and we submit everything to Twitter directly through their API.
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