Let me try and explain: Users launch a trend that they think is going to be big or is something they are into (saving the environment, american apparel, ect.)

Let me try and explain: Users launch a trend that they think is going to be big or is something they are into (saving the environment, american apparel, ect.) We then track how many users on our site like it (and where they are from, age, and sex) plus aggregated information from the internet. We are hoping to see how the trends connect with each other, and how users find new trends. We call this tracking influence. We are constantly working on our algorithm adding more sources. We think this is a balance between users finding the newest thing, and existing data channels (does that make sense?) Once you sign up, the goal is to earn points by getting in/starting a new big trend. This might help: http://edopter.com/howitworks http://edopter.com/howitworks