What is hashparty

HashParty is brought to you by Big Kitty Labs, a bit' concept lab in Columbus, Ohio founded by Dan Rockwell and Tushar Kulkarni. At BKL we thrive on rapid concepts. We're pretty happy with HashParty so far, we hope you'll like it too and stick around to see where it goes next.

If you like HashParty odds are you'll like our sister product ParsePlz--a bookmark analyzer for the web. We've got more bit betas out there too, check out our website at BigKittyLabs -if you have any questions of feature requests hit Dan up at [jimmydan] [at] [gmail] . [com]

What is HashParty?

HashParty is a twitter hashtag explorer that reveals the "who" behind the "what". Why? How many times have you checked out a hashtag trend and wondered who are these people?.With HashParty you can now see the "who" behind trending conferences, brands, and more. It's all about tapping into the "who" behind hashtags, the people that tweet them, explore the social graph of the bigger conversation.

Hashtags are like man made tags, specific to bigger ideals, richer conversations, spanning whole events like conferences, memes and just about anything.

We're used to searching and exploring the tweets but we've never really had a good look at the people behind the tweets- until now. People are the source-for inspiration today and tomorrow. Dive into the social graph and tap that inspiration.

how it works?

search

You can search for any hashtag you know of and or any we suggest. You can also search on people themselves by using their twitter names with their @ symbol- "@floozyspeak", this will bring up that persons tweets and what profile information HashParty can find. Try these additional hashparty search hacks!

$SBUX (search on a stock)
k-apple (search on a keyword, apple for this one)
k-bestbuy :( (search on a keyword with negative sentiment)


what they said

Nuff said, these are the tweets.


who said it

These are the profiles behind the "who" of tweets. HashParty uses the Ident Engine to crank out its social graph profiles. It begins by drilling into the twitter name ids behind the tweets.

From there it scours the web and attempts to put together the complete profile which it doesn't always get right, but it can get pretty close.

Why is this helpful or useful? Tweets alone cannot satisfy your search thirst- get into that person, jump into their blog, check out their friendfeed, youtube and more. You can optionally sort "who" by the most social network activity, most twitter followers or date.



sweet links

How many times have you skipped through a series of tweets just to find links? You're link hungry for that conference in question, you're curious about the coverage, just get to the action. Sweet links yanks out all the links it sees for a page view of tweets allowing you to get to the newness faster.


editors choice hashtags

These are hashtags that our team is following, watching, thinking about.


twitter trend hashtags

These are hashtags trending today, this week and this month.


party favourite hashtags

These are hashtags we automatically follow and pull out of twitter id's on the web. Not all hashtags are going to just trend to the top. Sometimes its just better to follow the "people on the scene" and see what they're hashtagging. You can see our party favourite twitter ids, and recommend new ones here:

We're pulling hashtags from:
http://twitter.com/armano

recommend someone and why?



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