Are you curious about the tweets coming out of Sochi Russia? Wonder what the world has to say about the latest Winter Olympics developments and #SochiProblems? Hashtracking can help you track Winter Olympics Hashtags. Hashtracking is currently tracking and sharing live data and analytics on over 400 hashtags related to the Winter Olympic Games [...]
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We’ve Got Your Big Game Hashtags at Hashtracking, Inc.
Will you be watching Hashtags while you watch the big game? It’s now easier than ever to follow with Hashtracking’s Super Tag Leaderboard. Hashtags have become a huge part of the sporting event, both for the teams participating and advertisers airing ads during the big game. Hundreds of thousands of tweets are sure to fly [...]
Word of the Year: #Selfie
The Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year for 2013 is #Selfie, and I feel it was chosen well. Selfie began as a word only the in-crowd was using, became a ubiquitous term every NPR listener knew, and now it has been crowned King of Words for 2013. The Oxford Dictionary has a blog, of course, [...]
#HasJustineLandedYet Hashtag #Crashtag
Sometimes, when someone does or says something truly offensive and hateful, the world reacts in a way they only could in the 21st Century: They take to Twitter by the millions and use a hashtag. #HasJustineLandedYet is still trending on Twitter even 24 hours after it began, which for Twitter is a very long time, [...]
TrackingTragic Events: #PrayforBoston & #BostonMarathon Twitter Hashtags
It is a fact of modern life. When a tragedy occurs, people turn to social media. Today’s events in Boston were shared on social media, even as news crews and rescuers rushed to the scene. A Vine video loop of the blast played on the local news. A shocking (and graphic) twitter picture of a [...]
#WhyIHateInstagram feeds the Hashtag Platform Wars
This week on Twitter the Hashtag #WhyIHateInstagram was a trending tag. Ironically, the top complaint of users tweeting with the #WhyIHateInstagram trending hashtag, was the seemingly pointless use of too many hashtags. Hashtags originally became popular as a way to group topics, and create conversation threads. But not all hashtags are used this way, and [...]
Can #Oscars Hashtags Predict Academy Award Winners?
Is it possible that #Oscars Hashtag use on Twitter could predict the winners of the Oscars? Is there any correllation between Twitter and the Academy? Wonder what are fans saying about the nine films nominated for a Best Picture Award? With the Oscars less than a week away, we could not control our curiosity. We’ve [...]
Paying the Bill with a Hashtag?
After this recent announcement from Amex, it looks like Hashtags are about to turn into Cashtags. Amex and Twitter have partnered on a program that allows cardholders to take advantage of special purchase offers by tweeting with a hashtag. What is interesting is this brand new use of the Hashtag for e-commerce, and the other [...]
