Are you looking for the most popular hashtags out of all tweets or within a set of tweets about a specific subject? If it is the later, what I do is use the streaming API to collect all tweets for certain keywords, parse out the hashtags within them, and store them in a MySQL database. Then I can use straight-forward SQL commands to find the most frequent tags over any period of time. As you'd expect, it is a steep power curve with a very long tail. The top 100 to 200 hashtags in any subset get about 80% of the use.
I have a set of simple source code in PHP that creates this type of database. You can use this as a starting point. http://bit.ly/a1CsZE On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 8:37 AM, b3zra1y <agregwil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all - > I'm looking for an API method that will return a list of popular > hashtags. > > I'm new to the API, but at first glance I don't see such a method. > Can you point the way ? > THANKS > -- Adam Green Twitter API Consultant and Trainer http://140dev.com @140dev -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
