How many people are talking about #X?
October 21, 2010 11:23 AM   Subscribe

Is there a (preferably free) service that lets you get a count of number of tweets by hashtag for a specified date range? Being able to also get a number of unique users tweeting about a hashtag would also be helpful.
posted by OverlappingElvis to Computers & Internet (1 answer total)
 
It's easy to do using their API:

For example, if you want to search for #apple between 2010-10-01 and 2010-10-15, you'd just do this and then count the results:

http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%23apple&since=2010-10-01&until=2010-10-15

Add &page=2, &page=3, etc to get successive pages of results. It sends 15 per page.
posted by jeffamaphone at 11:58 AM on October 21, 2010 [2 favorites]


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