diff --git a/statistics/twitter/extract_twitter_hashtags.sh b/statistics/twitter/extract_twitter_hashtags.sh
index 10d3c15..4b2edbb 100755
--- a/statistics/twitter/extract_twitter_hashtags.sh
+++ b/statistics/twitter/extract_twitter_hashtags.sh
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 #####################
 
 HISTFILE="./twitter_hashtag_history.csv"
-DISTFILE="./twitter_hashtag_numbers.txt"
 
 # extract hashtags and time stamp in parallel
 
@@ -15,7 +14,3 @@ echo "$@" | parallel -d ' ' -j+0 --eta "echo \"parsing {}\"; zcat {} |jq -r 'if
 # merge all temporary history files to one
 cat tmp_twitter_history_* > ${HISTFILE}
 # rm "tmp_twitter_history_*"
-
-# count hashtag occurence
-awk -F, '{print tolower($2)}' "${HISTFILE}" | sort | uniq -c > ${DISTFILE}
-# let's hope that sort can manage such huge files in memory