I have had a few people ask, “How do you get the analytics for Twitter Chats or Hashtags.”  Well, I recently started using a service called HashTracking. They are very wonderful people, quick to respond and very easy to work with.  They even provide Snapshots of Tweets, Impressions & Reach, Top 20 List, Drill-down Content Analysis, Detailed Contributor List and Full Transcripts.
(mind you this is not a paid endorsement or advertisement of any kind, I just REALLY love their service!)

Twitter hashtag analytic’s also give you a way to:

  • Track Campaigns
  • Measure Reach
  • Calculate Influence
  • Create Beautiful Presentations

You can get free basic reports, very powerful 1 day,  1 week & 1 month Pro Reports and Multi-hashtag Monthly Enterprise Solutions.

Hashtracking is currently in Beat mode but I have been using for two months and could not be happier with their service!
I told them I would be writing this post so you can actually contact them to try it out and ask to be a Beta user.
Here is the email: admin @ hashtracking.com or follow them @hashtracking on Twitter!

NOW JUST IN CASE
Wondering what a hashtag is and that’s perfectly ok, cause I had the same question a few years ago.
I got this form the Twitter Help Center

What Are Hashtags (“#” Symbols)?

Definition: The # symbol, called a hashtag, is used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet. It was created organically by Twitter users as a way to categorize messages.

Hashtags: helping you find interesting Tweets

  • People use the hashtag symbol # before relevant keywords in their Tweet to categorize those Tweets to show more easily in Twitter Search.
  • Clicking on a hashtagged word in any message shows you all other Tweets in that category.
  • Hashtags can occur anywhere in the Tweet.
  • Hashtagged words that become very popular are often Trending Topics.

Example: Below I added the hashtag before the word “CMchat”  and “CountryMusic” in my message. The word is now a link to search results for all Tweets containing “#CMchat” and “CountryMusic” in the message.

Best Practices for using hashtags

  • If Tweet with a hashtag on a public account, anyone who does a search for that hashtag may find your Tweet.
  • Don’t #spam #with #hashtags. Don’t over-tag a single Tweet. (Best practices recommend using no more than 3 hashtags per Tweet.)
  • Use hashtags only on Tweets relevant to the topic.