[danmaz74]

Hashtags are a very powerful way to find online communities with a given interest. As the OP found out, you also need to find the "right" hashtag for you, among the many alternatives there are for most subjects.

In case you need that, try out my free tool: http://hashtagify.me/#gators

[nahcub]

Great tool. Just curious, where do you get the data from? Do you crawl tweets or use some outside data source?

[danmaz74]

Thanks.

We currently get our data from Twitter API. We're going to use third party data sources to allow our pro product Hashtag Intelligence to get past data - those sources are pretty expensive ;)