'Returns the definition of a hashtag.'

@staticmethod
def tagdef(hashtag):

    hashtag = hashtag.split('#')[1]
    turl = ('http://api.tagdef.com/one.%s.json' % hashtag)
    try:
        hashstr = urllib2.urlopen(turl).read()
        hashdef = json.loads(hashstr)
    except:
        return hashtag
    else:
        return hashdef['defs']['def']['text']
