Because people expect the most popular topics become Twitter Trends, the company comes off looking like the bad guy here.
FORBES: Prompted By WikiLeaks Queries, Twitter Finally Explains Trends Algorithm
The perception of Twitter Trends, however, has been that the most popular topics are the ones that make it to the top.
FORBES: Prompted By WikiLeaks Queries, Twitter Finally Explains Trends Algorithm
In a list of the top ten political twitter trends of 2012, Conservative themes took the top five spots and seven in total.
Twitter has been taking a lot of flack this week by users who have accused the social media service of manually taking WikiLeaks off the Twitter Trends list.
FORBES: Prompted By WikiLeaks Queries, Twitter Finally Explains Trends Algorithm
In mid-May it invited Seacrest to sit on a closed-door panel at a three-day conference with Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz and Facebook's second-in-command, Sheryl Sandberg. (He talked about using outlets like Twitter to chart trends, stay connected and gauge stars' appeal for casting purposes.) Among leaders that included Jamie Dimon (JPMorgan Chase), Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, Seacrest was the only rep from Tinseltown.
While Google identifies macro trends, Twitter Search is highly effective at monitoring the elements of specific conversations and their changes in real time.
FORBES: How To Use Twitter Chat To Increase Your Business In 2013
Judging by the usual trends on Twitter, we'll get our TV suggestions elsewhere, but it is an interesting parallel to the data already being collected and reported by companies like TiVo and GetGlue.
ENGADGET: Google TV's TV and Movies app gets to know you better with ratings, favorites and more
On Wednesday night, the company announced plans that made that fact painfully clear and being that Google evidently weighed the decision beforehand, it is unlikely that any protest, no matter how long it trends on Twitter, will get Google to change its mind.
FORBES: Google Reader Shutdown a Sobering Reminder That 'Our' Technology Isn't Ours
Mr. Weiss says he now uses Twitter as a surveillance tool, to keep tabs on fashion trends and competitors.
After spotting this Twitter musing from security researcher Christopher Boyd, we ran Google Trends on a few common cybersecurity terms.
Such trends data, and there are companies out there that will compile such information on Twitter mentions, Facebook pages and the like for those who are interested, is indeed interesting data.
应用推荐