Trends in Twitter And The Activity Involved Wouldn't You LIke To Know

Clinton Allen

Whatthetrend.com deals with twitterer’s commenting on what are the trends going on the Twitter website. What people are posting and how many people react to the posting giving their feedback on the topics. Each trend chart is ranked from 1-10, shows how many points that trend has, the peak index, the change whether is positive or negative. Then the name of the twitterer is shown who started the trend and then the description of the trend.

This in an example of the top 100 Twitter Trends.

What the Trend: Twitter Trends February 26 – March 4, 2010

Top 100 Trends

Week In Review

The past week saw a majority of discussion around the Chilean earthquake. Alone, the earthquake accounted for 34 unique trends out of a total of 593 trends total for the week. In addition, there were a number of SPAM trends that broke the top 10 topics, and in aggregate, SPAM was #11 on the overall non-hashtag chart. Twitter has spent some time trying to battle these SPAM trends in the past, blacklisting as soon as they appear. It may be that the spammers have become more sophisticated and Twitter will need to update their algorithms to better combat these attacks.Chile vs. Haiti

The Haitian and Chilean earthquake trends are recent examples of the use of Twitter’s immediate response mechanism for natural disasters. However, given the Twitter community’s fickle attention span, a subject not being discussed constantly quickly falls out of the limelight. As an example, while Haiti dominated Twitter for approximately two week’s time, it has since fallen greatly in the standings despite the fact that relief efforts are still very much underway. Expectation is that without new social media pushes on the part of Chilean humanitarian groups and spokespeople, Chile will too quickly fall out of the statusphere.

Sports

In the NBA, the Lakers and the Miami Heat were the most tweeted about teams this week. Other sports that trended were Football in Europe,

Trends by Category

Lifestyle 7%

News 7%

SPAM 8%

Other 10%

Technology 10%

Entertainment 35%

Sports Meme 12%

By this example Twitterers are interested in Entertainment the most then followed by Sport and Technology. So you’ll see a lot of people sending tweets to entertainers also following them and commenting on their tweets and links.

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