Just looking for the answer to this myself. gmplot was updated to June 2016 to include a hovertext functionality for the marker method, but unfortunately this isn't available for the scatter method. The enthusiastic user will find that the scatter method simply calls the marker method over and over, and could modify the scatter method itself to accept a title or range of titles.
If like myself you are using an older version, make sure to run
pip install --upgrade gmplot
and to place a marker with hovertext (mouse hovering over pin without clicking)
gmap=gmplot.GoogleMapPlotter("Seattle")
gmap.marker(47.61028142523736, -122.34147349538826, title="A street corner in Seattle")
st="testmap.html"
gmap.draw(st)