Just how popular are some #Twitter Groups

[Nightwing]

Good Morning from 14 degrees C wetherby UK

As i sat on my grassy knoll puffing on a pipe overlooking the English country Land I wondered... just how do you measure the volume of users using hash tag twitter groups.... or put another way imagine you say to a client "Ok one idea is to get this friday meal deal promoted on #FF"

The client then says...

"So how many twitter users use the #FF"

It a blunt but legit question & one I couldnt answer right now. So my question is please...

"Is there a tool to measure frequency of use with regards to twitter hash tag groups"

Thanks in advance

[matbennett]

Good morning back at you from 22 degrees C Hayling Island, UK :¬)

I don't know of a specific too, but if the group isn't massive you could do this fairly easy through the twitter API.   You could use the search API, which is really simple and do a search something like this:

http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=%23seomoz&result_type=recent&rpp=100

That will return the last 100 tweets that contained #seomoz .  You can then cycle through results adding the page=X variable for up to 1,500 pages.  So as long as there are less than 150,000 results that should do the job.  If there are likely to be more you would do the search more often and add a date qualifier.

If there isn't a tool to do it I'd possibly be up for writing it - sounds useful.  However it is simple enough that I suspect someone has done it

[matbennett]

or, do it the easy way!  Tweetreach : http://tweetreach.com/

[Nightwing]

Thanks Mat

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