Absolutely, I use TAGSExplorer to track my students posts when I have them live-tweet their reading of a novel. I've done this with *Orxy and Crake* and *The Circle. *I create a class hashtag for this, but you can track any tag in the same way. Here is an example. https://eng15102spring16.wordpress.com/2016/03/21/pressure-to-post/ http://hawksey.info/tagsexplorer/?key=1DdAfoMsGOf2EkHJNCEmEeuSVGILSluHCG2aJo... And here is the tool: http://hawksey.info/tagsexplorer/ https://mashe.hawksey.info/2011/11/twitter-how-to-archive-event-hashtags-and... Good luck, Amanda Amanda Licastro Assistant Professor of Digital Rhetoric, Stevenson University Doctoral Student, The Graduate Center, CUNY http://digitocentrism.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ @amandalicastro On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Jon Michael Wargo <wargojon@msu.edu> wrote:

Hello Fabulous Listserv,

Just a quick question for the mind of the AIR-L hive. How can I track a tag in a way that is not costly (aka FREE) and breaks down analytics that would be helpful in a presentation to a generalist audience (e.g., # of unique users who used the tag, word cloud with other popular text, reach/scope of the #tag)? I've tried a number of suggested apps and tools on the social media tools page but as someone with limited proficiency with code I am having difficulty finding something that works.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Email me directly please.

Thanks, Jon

Jon M. Wargo, Ph.D. University Fellow Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education [CITE] Michigan State University 313 Erickson Hall 620 Farm Lane East Lansing, MI 48824

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