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This is somewhat hacker-relevant: During a 30-minute window, 22% of all tweets mentioned Michael Jackson (with the correct spelling). http://twist.flaptor.com/
by diego 17y ago
This is somewhat hacker-relevant: During a 30-minute window, 22% of all tweets mentioned Michael Jackson (with the correct spelling).
http://twist.flaptor.com/trends?gram=michael%20jackson&span=24&start=2009062519&end=2009062600 http://twist.flaptor.com/trends?gram=michael%20jackson&s...
It's the highest peak we've seen for a person since we started tracking.
- delano 17y agoTwitter has now disabled search altogether which is the first time I recall that happening. I'm sure that's one of the reasons for the decline in the graph.
- diego 17y agoI'm not sure I understand what you mean. Even now, 8 hours after the news broke, 6% of all tweets are still mentioning Michael Jackson. That's comparable to the peak mentions for the Lakers when they won the NBA title and Facebook during the name rush.
- delano 17y agoOh, I was referring to the "Trending Topics" and search box on Twitter itself. They were removed and I suspect that would reduce overall Twitter activity (b/c it's more difficult for people to see what other people are saying).
- xsmasher 17y agoDon't read too much into that - "Twitter spammers" are already keeping an eye on trending searches and posting unrelated spam content with high-ranking keywords. Your data will be skewed by spammers trying to ride the popularity wave.