You may want to take a look at our app, http://twist.flaptor.com/ http://twist.flaptor.com/ It's like Google Trends for Twitter. Instead of queries, we track w

You may want to take a look at our app, http://twist.flaptor.com/ http://twist.flaptor.com/ It's like Google Trends for Twitter. Instead of queries, we track what people say. You can see how a keyword explodes and becomes a trend in an hour or two. For example, yesterday someone saw an amber alert. It turns out this person was the mother of @ddlovato, who has 600k followers. You can see the mother's tweet, ddlovato's mention 18 minutes later and a subsequent explosion of retweets until they reached 0.4% of all tweets during the hour (that's probably in the thousands). http://twist.flaptor.com/trends?gram=child+abducted&span=168&start=2009071311&end=2009071405&hot=true http://twist.flaptor.com/trends?gram=child+abducted&span...