5 Useful Tools to Monitor Twitter Hashtags

Want to know what's being talked about on Twitter right now? Or how about what people are saying about your or your brand? Monitoring hashtags is a great way to get in on a conversation on Twitter, whether it's a trending topic or a few tweets per day. We've compiled 5 useful tools that will help you monitor hashtags on Twitter, so you can keep up with the conversation.


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Top 10 Actually Useful Tweets about Hurricane Irene

Twitter is great for generating buzz, but sometimes that buzz isn’t all that constructive. As the east coast of the United States prepares for Hurricane Irene this weekend, tips on how to handle weather emergencies are appreciated by all audiences. Thankfully, there are a lot of Twitter users who are skilled at giving advice, whether it be on how to deal with flooding or how to maintain perspective when we don’t even know how badly the storm will affect different areas. Here, then, are the [...]

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Your Twitter stream just got less noisy and more useful

If you've not been able to keep up with who favorited or retweeted your tweets in the past, Twitter has a way to fix this. Now, according to the Twitter blog, your mentions column will now populate with a wealth of information:The other major change comes in a new column called "Activity". This is where you'll now be able to see what people you follow are doing. So if they're retweeting or favoriting, you can now discover even more great people to follow on Twitter.Both of these come as welcome [...]

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Your Twitter stream just got less noisy and more useful

If you've not been able to keep up with who favorited or retweeted your tweets in the past, Twitter has a way to fix this. Now, according to the Twitter blog, your mentions column will now populate with a wealth of information:The other major change comes in a new column called "Activity". This is where you'll now be able to see what people you follow are doing. So if they're retweeting or favoriting, you can now discover even more great people to follow on Twitter.Both of these come as welcome [...]

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TweeTool makes short URLs on Twitter's website more useful: Adds preview logos, thumbnails

Despite Twitter's recent work to integrate media such as images and videos directly into its site, scanning tweets for interesting links is still not as easy as it could be thanks to the necessary use of shortened URLs in tweets. What's behind that Bit.ly or Goo.gl link? Sometimes a clue would be nice. That's exactly what TweeTool, a new extension for Chrome and Firefox, offers.Install the extension and it displays a preview logo of the source of a link in a tweet right next to the text. So, a l [...]

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