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Five Twitter Hashtag Analytics Tools and How to Leverage Them

by Tammy Kahn FennellTammy Kahn Fennell

5 Twitter Hashtag Analytics Tools and How to Leverage Them

The hashtag has come so far that now we are talking about Twitter hashtag analytics tools for business! How did this happen? And how can we best use these tools to leverage hashtag analysis for our business?

The hashtag: from humble beginnings to becoming as important as an emoticon to add additional context, the hashtag is pretty omnipresent. You see the hashtag addict (usually on instagram: #selfie #yoga etc.), and you see people who are a little hashtag shy, maybe using it occasionally. You’ve probably even met people who speak in hashtags: “Going shopping, hashtag awesome!”.

The history of the hashtag is an interesting one. There’s a great article on CopyPress that’s worth reading if you want to learn your hashtag history. It’s interesting to note that the Hashtag didn’t just start on Twitter.

According to the article, “The first appearance of hashtags on the Internet was in Internet Relay Chat, or IRC. Created in 1988, IRC is a network where users communicate to one another through channels, signified by the pound sign. #London would be a channel of people talking about London, #singles with single people, and so on and so forth. With the IRC community growing to almost half a million users, they needed a name for the titles of these channels, in which they decided on – you guessed it – the hashtag.”

But with the advent of Social Media, the humble hashtag has taken on a whole new life, and what’s more, can be an effective tool in your social marketing arsenal. I asked the Community Manager here at MarketMeSuite, Allison Davis (@Allison51090), and avid hashtagger (is that a word? well, it is now…), how she takes this fun concept, and actually makes it productive for her role in our business, and she gave me a list of 5 ways she uses hashtags to make her social marketing even more productive.

1. Hashtags.org
With different trends on the rise, it’s important to keep an out when hashtags are beginning to trend to jump right into the conversation. It’s equally important to know when they aren’t trending as much. Using Hashtags.org, you can follow all the latest hashtags, and how well they are doing on social. Here at MarketMeSuite, we like to be on top of every hot topic with a social media/small business focus. It helps us keep our fans and followers up to date by providing our ‘Follow Up Friday’ every Friday afternoon!

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Best part: You can track your hashtags. Listen and measure in different Twitter conversations while tracking how well your hashtags are doing.

2. #TagBoard

This is one of our newest favorites in the MarketMeSuite office. Not only can we easily track every hashtag and conversation, we can track them on every network! You can interact and engage right from your board on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, and Vine.

Best part: Create and customize your own tagboard that updates regularly.

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3. MarketMeSuite Real-time Search

Of course, our favorite in the MarketMeSuite office is our real-time search feature. Real-time search is great to monitor social networks for mentions of your company, name, brand or competitors’ names or brands.

Best part: You can Geo-target your results and search for any keyword, in any location around the world!

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4. Twitonomy

Our Community Managers personal favorite! Before Twitter analytics were live, this was our go to Twitter tool. Track and analyze all your best tweets all the way back from when you first started tweeting. They even take it one step further and provide the best days and times when you’re getting the most interactions. This really helps us in the MarketMeSuite office show our progress and learn exactly what our fans and followers are engaging with.

Best part: You can track your top hashtags and even see how many times your fans and followers are engaging with each one.

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5. RiteTag

Whether a beginner or expert, doesn’t matter. We’re all looking for the best hashtag to use! This tool is designed to do just that. Install RiteTag right to your web browser and see the strength of each hashtag you wish to use.

Best part: The extension works on almost all browsers! It will follow you everywhere.

ritetag twitter hashtag analytics tools

#Hashtag #Awesome #WhatDoYouThink

Do you have any other tricks for effective use of the humble hashtag or any other Twitter hashtag analytics tools to recommend? That would be #awesome. Please share by commenting below!

Do you use any Twitter hashtag analytics tools to track the hashtags you use? Do you track the effectiveness of your hashtags? Here are 5 tools to use.

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Tammy Kahn Fennell

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Tammy Kahn Fennell is an expert in Social Media Productivity. Tammy is CEO and co-founder of MarketMeSuite, the leading social media management dashboard for small- and mid-sized businesses. Tammy launched the MarketMeSuite platform in late 2009 after years of experience marketing her own small business online. Recognizing both trends in social media and the needs of SMBs, Tammy realized an opportunity to help others easily manage & monitor their social media presence, find targeted leads, build engagement and measure the ROI of their social marketing activities. Today the easy-to-use, affordable platform has over 30,000 users. As the owner and editor of the community driven blog, WeAreSocialPeople.com, Tammy writes frequently on social media and small business topics and shares her knowledge and advice with thousands of SMBs via radio, Web seminars and live presentations. +Tammy Kahn Fennell
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Tammy Kahn Fennell is an expert in Social Media Productivity. Tammy is CEO and co-founder of MarketMeSuite, the leading social media management dashboard for small- and mid-sized businesses. Tammy launched the MarketMeSuite platform in late 2009 after years of experience marketing her own small business online. Recognizing both trends in social media and the needs of SMBs, Tammy realized an opportunity to help others easily manage & monitor their social media presence, find targeted leads, build engagement and measure the ROI of their social marketing activities. Today the easy-to-use, affordable platform has over 30,000 users. As the owner and editor of the community driven blog, WeAreSocialPeople.com, Tammy writes frequently on social media and small business topics and shares her knowledge and advice with thousands of SMBs via radio, Web seminars and live presentations. +Tammy Kahn Fennell

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  1. geoff696 says

    September 1, 2014 at 5:15 pm

    One free tool I frequently use to find potential hastags to use is http://hashtagify.me/ , I’ll check out #tagboard as that looks interesting

  2. geoff696 says

    September 1, 2014 at 5:15 pm

    One free tool I frequently use to find potential hastags to use is http://hashtagify.me/ , I’ll check out #tagboard as that looks interesting

  3. Nisha Pandey says

    August 30, 2014 at 2:10 pm

    Hello Tammy,

    Such a informative post. I was searching about that how to use twitter hashtags and found your article.

    It is really helpful for me. Thanks for sharing

    have a nice weekend!

  4. Nisha Pandey says

    August 30, 2014 at 2:10 pm

    Hello Tammy,

    Such a informative post. I was searching about that how to use twitter hashtags and found your article.

    It is really helpful for me. Thanks for sharing

    have a nice weekend!

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