My thoughts exactly. They always look a bit #desperate #tryingtoohard #inauthentic PLEASE RT!!!

That would be a funny contest: most desperate tweet.

Okay, when people want to be #ironic or don't care about reaching beyond their followers, we probably don't have much for them. Still, if they want to track hashtags associated with a topic, product, event, brand or hashtag they know, our Alerts are a must.

But for those actually making money or waves in Twitter, people actually want to stop guessing, and go with our grading.

I've recently joined RiteTag on their PR/Marketing team, and I understand where you're coming from. Many users on Twitter use it primarily to connect with friends, however, there are also countless users that work in PR/Marketing and other sectors that would have a need to connect with their customers as well as reaching to a larger audience. Since you can also search hashtags now on Google, keeping track of hashtags related to your topic of interest can be helpful!

yes, social media mavens and SEO gurus ;)

I scroll through #d3js every few days to see what's being made/talked about.

Yes, and many people set up a column in Hotsuite/Tweetdeck/etc. to track a few hashtags passively. When someone's using #ritetag or #startuplife, #hashtagmarketing, I see it this way.