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Okay, so that particular word is not in the trending topics. News flash: "Justin Bieber" isn't either, and I'll bet my life that his fans are still tweeting abo

• tamersalama 16y ago
  This particular topic was at around 0.85% of all tweets yesterday. What type of algorithm would ignore this traffic, in favor of say around 0.05% (for first topic). This has some human fingerprints. Today - some related topics are making it to the trends.
  • po 16y ago
    > What type of algorithm would ignore this traffic Here's are some algorithms that would cause behavior different than what you would expect: * Take rate of tweets into account * Take the geography of tweeters into account * Only allow a topic to trend if it has an odd number of letters Obviously the real algorithm probably doesn't count the letters in the topic but it could be if it was a bug. It appears your mental model for how something gets into trending topics is: * Take the topics that have the highest total tweets per day. That is almost certainly not correct. > This has some human fingerprints. You absolutely don't know that. It's pure speculation.