This weekend the world will be watching the Academy Awards. There are many predictions about who will win a coveted Oscar this weekend. Could Twitter hashtags predict Oscars winners? Will the Academy’s choices reflect popular sentiment? There’s only one way to see. Check out which Oscars hashtags are trending on Twitter, with live stats and [...]
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2014 Winter Olympics Hashtag Trends
Have you been watching the Winter Olympics Games in Sochi? And have you been watching the Hashtags? Several trends have emerged since the start of the Games. Social, political and personal stories have been played out across the internet in a stream of 140 character messages and conversations. These messages and images are giving us another [...]
Top 2014 Winter Olympics Hashtags
The 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi Russia have generated millions of tweets on hundreds of hashtags. Top Hashtags for the games register timeline deliveries/impressions well into the billions. So which Hashtags are currently in top position to bring home Olympic Gold? At the time of this article being written (Feb 17,2014) here’s some stats [...]
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, [...]
Death of a Hashtag - The Case of the Missing Hashtag Impressions
It’s a question I hear all the time. “My hashtagged tweet was re-tweeted like a bazillion times. Something is wrong here! What happened to all my impressions?!” It usually goes like this: PersonA Tweets with a hashtag *at the end of the tweet* PersonB Old School RT’s (Re Tweets) the tweet. There’s still just barely [...]
Three Practical IRL Uses for Hashtags
Hashtags are not just for the web anymore. New, practical uses for hashtags are springing up every day Most folks already know that hashtags are a great way to keep track of a conversation on Twitter or group your photos on Instagram. If you use social media, you’ve probably poked around and seen the way [...]
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 [...]
Evolution of the Hashtag
The hashtag has come a long way since its humble beginning. Hashtags began as a simple way to organize and categorize conversations and have since developed into a Twitter culture focal point. Today, hashtags help ensure that your tweets don’t get lost in the sea of conversations, but also provide a way to entertain, attract customers, [...]
