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Why do Trending topics Trend on Twitter?

Posted in General Blog Fodder, Random, Social Media, Twitter on Feb 5th, 2012

Why do Trending topics Trend on Twitter? If you go to the trending topic you will find tons of people asking this question, but they don’t phrase it like this. Instead they ask “why is [trending topic] trending? Usually they ask this with complete and utter astonishment that something so outrageous, false, ridiculous, mundane, etc [...]

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Protected Updates on Twitter are not so Protected

Posted in Twitter on May 9th, 2009

Suppose you are following someone (@firstperson) who said “@cooldude I am looking forward to tonight.” But when you tried to check out that person (@cooldude) you found they had protected their updates. Well, these are not so protected. If you Google the person’s username (cooldude w/ no @symbol) as well as the @firstperson you will [...]

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