Explanations for Twitter trending topics getting a trend
This is part 3 of our Twitter related mini-tutorial (part1, part2).
Twitter.com is providing a short list of currently popular keywords from within the most current stream of tweets.
This list is called “Trending Topics”.
It provides a convenient way to connect to what is currently happening on that global message bus called Twitter:
Recently some explanations started to show up after one clicked on a specific trending topic:
http://twitter.com/#search?q=%22Happy%20Thanksgiving%22%20OR%20Thanksgiving
Brizzly, a new Twitter client, is also providing explanations for trending topics. For some this is even a differentiating feature of Brizzly:
WhatTheTrend is a Wikipedia like community website to provide explanations for always new trending topics on Twitter:
WhatTheTrend seems to be used by Twitter as a source of some of the explanations it is displaying.
Closing comment:
Happy Thanksgiving!
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