10 Popular (or Should We Say, Poplar) Twitter Hashtags for Green Building

On Monday, Mamusu Tucker wrote about how to add Twitter followers on #ecomonday, the green version of #followfriday. While #ecomonday is a great hashtag to use on Mondays, especially for shout outs, there are a number of other hashtags related to green building that can be effective in gaining followers and connecting with members of the industry.

I used Hashtags.org, a site dedicated to collecting Twitter hastag usage data, to find out which green building-related hashtags are popular. The website is great for searching hashtags and seeing how often they were used and at what times. Hashtags.org allows you to see a hashtag's estimated usage over the last 24 hours for free, though you can pay to upgrade and track hashtags over longer periods of time.

I searched a number of green building-themed hashtags, and found that these were 10 of the most popular in the last 24 hours:

1. #greenbuilding (Used 88 times)
2. #green (8903)
3. #energy (7067)
4. #leed (183)
5. #building (757)
6. #sustainability (1518)
7. #construction (1646)
8. #architecture (3100)
9. #efficiency (364)
10. #eco (1833)

Next time you tweet, try using these hashtags to promote it to a more targeted audience. Avoid hashtags that have little or no trending power. For example, I found that #greenbldg had zero hits, so save your characters for a better hashtag, like #energy or #leed.

Happy tweeting!